Revolutionary War Soldier's Ration Request for Sugar and Coffee

by COMSTOCK, Saml.

$550 · Offered by Between the Covers

Camp Short Hills, (New Jersey): June 19, 1780. Unbound. Holograph document. Approximately 8" x 3". Laid paper. Old folds, a little ink splatter, near fine. A request by Captain Samuel Comstock of the 8th Connecticut Regiment at Camp Short Hills, to deliver to the bearer "his proportions of state stores..... More

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