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HORSES FOR WASHINGTON'S ARMY

1780, PA. Anderson PA 1. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania bond issued in which "Samuel Woods of the township of Donegall ...has furnished this State, for the use of the United States, one good bay horse five years old fourteen hands high which has been appraised by two freeholders, on Oath at the sum of thirty pounds specie or the exchange in Continental at 60 and which the State is now justly indebted to him with interest." Washington's Army was in dire need of horses and these were issued to horse owners who both willingly, and unwillingly, saw their horses march off with the army. Very fine.