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Humphreys, David, 1752-1818 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01623 Author/Creator: Humphreys, David, 1752-1818 Place Written: Nelson's Ferry Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 September 1782 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 20.8 cm, Width: 16.7 cm Order a Copy

Written by Colonel Humphreys, aide-de-camp to General Washington, to Major General Knox. Says the meetings of the commissioners will take place on next Wednesday. Says he has not seen dispatches from Congress, but that Colonel Tilghman informed him that they were of such a nature that both Knox and General Heath need to immediately master their contents. Says Colonel Smith has accepted the office of commissary and has gone to Elizabethtown. Smith will try to meet with Knox on Wednesday in Tappan. Written from Nelson's Ferry. Two Revolutionary War battles took place at Nelson's Ferry, South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, but it does not appear that Humphreys went any further south than Virginia in 1782-1783. No state could be ascertained for place written. "On public service" written on address leaf with no signature.

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