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Autograph accounting ledger : [Fort Ticonderoga?], 1775 May 31.

BIB_ID
80757
Accession number
MA 876.4
Creator
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801.
Display Date
1775 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (13 p.) ; 16.9 cm
Notes
Entries in the ledger appear to range from May 9, 1775 through July 7, 1775.
Part of a collection of letters written by Benedict Arnold. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Removed in 1921 from the Worthington C. Ford Collection of Autograph Letters.
The place of writing is not given but Benedict Arnold was in command of Fort Ticonderoga in June 1775 and several of the officers mentioned in the ledger appear to have been at Fort Ticonderoga at that time.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Being an accounting of monies paid to or from men most likely under his command.