(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Return of Arms c on Hand and Wanting i

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Return of Arms &c on Hand and Wanting in the 3rd and 4th Massachusetts Brigade. One manuscript page, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, signed by inspector Lt. Col. John Brooks (commander of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment), with docketing and unrelated calculations on verso; spot-mounted at corners to a blank sheet. Np, 1 August 1780

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Gives the breakdowns for seven Massachusetts regiments for: guns with bayonets, guns without bayonets, guns wanting, bayonets wanting, cartridge boxes on hand, and cartridge boxes wanting. These brigades were then on duty in New Jersey, preparing for a New York offensive under Washington which never came to pass.