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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Hodgdon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01100 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Sleepy Hollow, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 29 July 1781 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 19.1 cm Order a Copy

Discusses arms, stores, and other military matters with Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores. Compliments Hodgdon on his new appointment. Written at Phillipsburg (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York).

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

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