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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01016 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 3 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.9 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Informs the recipient: "I have information that a quantity of [struck: saltpetre] sulphur belonging to the United States has been deposited in the House in what you now live. This event happen'd either through the villany or carelessness of the persons employ'd to transport it." Instructs the inhabitant of the house to deliver the sulphur to the United States.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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