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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [A rough estimate of the number of teams which will be wanting to transport cannon and stores]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00961 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 2 June 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 34 x 19.4 cm. Order a Copy

Includes estimates for transport from: Providence, Rhode Island to Fishkill, New York; Boston, Massachusetts to [Claverack], New York; and from Springfield, Massachusetts to Claverack. Signed by Knox directed to Colonel Timothy Pickering.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

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