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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00201-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 August 1775
- Author/Creator
- Howland, Joseph, 1749-1836
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Norwich, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31.6 cm, Width: 21.4 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Indicates that he sent Knox some hosiery. Describes Norwich as confused. Discusses current preparations to defend against the British, who would like to seize their provisions. Calls the uncontested British seizure of provisions on Fishers Island the previous week shameful for the Americans. Interprets a letter from George Washington to the Rhode Island Committee of Correspondence in regard to transports as a reprimand. Asks Knox his rank and requests that he show the works at Roxbury and Cambridge to two of Howland's friends. Discusses forming a light infantry in Rhode Island and asks Knox about uniforms. A post script asks Knox to send a copy of Colonel Timothy Pickering's "Plan of Exercise." Howland was a merchant and ship owner at Norwich, Connecticut.
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