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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Thomas Seward

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01626 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript letter Date: 24 September 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 16.8 cm Order a Copy

Written and signed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Writes, "I have directed a company under Capt. Lt. [Isaac] Guion from Col. [John] Lamb's regiment to relieve yours now Stationed in the Northern department. You will therefore obtain permission from Maj. Gen. [William Alexander] Lord Stirling to collect your men and repair to this post as soon as possible. You must carefully examine all the waggons and other carriages which were taken from General [John] Burgoyne in 1777, and such of them as are fit for Service must be brought here in their present state - the remainder you must burn and bring all the iron belonging to them with you to this place. You must inform his Lordship of this order."

Seward, Thomas, 1740-1800
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Alexander, William, 1726-1783
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Lamb, John, 1735-1800
Guion, Isaac, fl. 1776-1823

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