Livingston, Walter, 1740-1797 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00228 Author/Creator: Livingston, Walter, 1740-1797 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 December 1775 Pagination: 1p.+addr. 20.6 cm. x 16.3 cm. Order a Copy
Recommends distributing the horses over more sleighs in order to transport the artillery. Knox was then on a mission to bring British artillery pieces captured from the British earlier that year at Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Livingston was then serving on the commissary of stores and provisions for the department of New York.
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