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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Lucy Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00214 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Lake George, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 December 1775 Pagination: 1p. : address : docket ; Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 15.9 cm Order a Copy

A brief note to tell his wife that he has arrived near Fort Ticonderoga and is in good health. Comments that the battery is waiting for him, in reference to his orders from George Washington to inspect artillery seized from the British earlier that year and return with it to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written from Fort George in Lake George, New York.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824

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