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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to William Price

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01019 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Knox gives orders to Lieutenant Price regarding stores that are to arrive from Pennsylvania (Price was in charge of the laboratory at West Point). "You will please to have every thing in the Laboratory prepared with the utmost dispatch..."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Price, William, ?-1790

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