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Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01571 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 September 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 21.1 cm Order a Copy

Writes that he will receive "the resolve of Congress relative to the department of Field commissary of military stores - as the officers must be under your particular eye & as you are better acquainted than any other the appointment is left to you - In your instructions you will order proper returns to the war office."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

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