Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02939 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 31 January 1784 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 23.2 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy
Pickering, Quartermaster General, asks Knox to write an official request to justify the allowance Pickering granted for the transportation of discharged officers' baggage (after they were discharged, many officers had difficulty traveling home). In a post script, suggests Knox assigns an earlier date to his official certificate.
Boston Jany 31. 1784
Dr Sir,
I forgot to request your certificate of the propriety and necessity of making to the officers discharged so liberal an allowance for the transportation of their baggage. I will thank you to do it in a letter, or in such form as you judge best, to justify the measure.
I am respectfully yours
Tim: Pickering
QMG
P.S. perhaps it will
Best to date your
Certificate the [1st] of Jany
M Genl Knox
[address leaf]
Major General Knox
Dorchester
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