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A plan for the general arrangement of the militia of the United States / published by order of the House of Representatives.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio HJ8105 1790 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. War Department
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defenses.
- Militia.
- United States--Militia--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- United States--Defenses--Early works to 1800.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Kuhl, Henry, 1764-1856 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 26 pages ; 35 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- s.r. nl.l. y.nd trTh (3) 1790 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, MDCCXC [1790]
- Notes:
- "Modified plan, submitted to the president Jan. 18, 1790 by Henry Knox, secretary of the War Dept. The original plan was submitted by Knox to the Continental Congress March 28, 1786."--ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]² B-F² G1.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is no. 3 in a collection of 50 18th-century U.S. government documents, most by Alexander Hamilton and a few by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and others, bound in 2 volumes (13 in the first volume and 37 in the second, including two manuscripts).
- RBC copy formerly owned by Alexander Hamilton, with ms. contents list of v. 1 in his hand on last blank leaf in volume. Cf. C.B. Clapp, "Alexander Hamilton's reports" in The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941), p. 52-64.
- RBC copy has autograph of Henry Kuhl on title leaf of first work in volume.
- Cited in:
- Evans 22988
- ESTC W2473
- Clapp, C.B. "Alexander Hamilton's reports." In The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941): 52-64, v. 1, no. 3
- OCLC:
- 21936921
- Online:
- Unique at Penn blog post
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