BIB_ID
106857
Accession number
MA 488.141
Creator
Fish, Nicholas, 1758-1833.
Display Date
1792 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Submitting a "statement of [his] pretentions to military rank" for consideration by the Board; offering to "cheerfully lay before [the Board] all the military commissions under which [he has] at different times acted."
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