Manuscript document, signed, certifying that a soldier in the Northwest Indian Wars was a prisoner of Native Americans.

by A. Prior

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Signed

Greenville, Ohio , 11 Feb. 1795. Document signed, 5.5” x 7.75”. 1 p. Docketed on verso “Thomas Stephenson certificate of Ras. 1795.” CONDITION: Very good, short separations along old folds, some foxing. A fascinating document issued by an army captain serving in the Northwest Territory who attempts here to procure a soldier’s back-rations after the

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