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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Hodgdon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01613.01 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Letter signed Date: July 7, 1794 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Knox orders Hodgdon, the Superintendent of Military Stores of the United States Army, to deliver munitions to Governor Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania as a loan. The supplies were needed for the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. Letter endorsed on the bottom by Mifflin, with the direction to send the powder to Colonel Clement Biddle, who endorsed the document on the verso. Letter written from the War Department.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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