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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Record of payments]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00548 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 12 March 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 8.8 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

States that Jeremiah Niles and Henry Burbeck have been paid for time served in 1776. Verso is signed by Thomas Proctor. Likely written at Fishkill, New York, where these men were stationed at the time.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Proctor, Thomas, 1739-1806
Niles, Jeremiah, 1749-1829
Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

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