Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01052 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: Sleepy Hollow, New York Type: Letter signed Date: 17 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 19.1 cm Order a Copy
Colonel Pickering, Quartermaster General, reports that the Jersey line have not yet arrived (at Phillipsburgh) but are encamped nearby. Complains of his inability to obtain sufficient numbers of horses. Written at Phillipsburgh, New York (present-day Sleepy Hollow).
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