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Sumner, Job, 1754-1789 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01692 Author/Creator: Sumner, Job, 1754-1789 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 November 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 22.3 cm Order a Copy

Signed by J. Sumner, Capt.; author may be Captain Job Sumner of the 3rd Massachusetts. Written from "Camp." Writes, "There is one Bound a soldier in the 3 Massachusetts, now confined in the provost, under your direction by Complaint of Mr. Nait an Inhabitant, "for injuring his property" - he has been long confined & if you think it will not injure Service, I should be glad he might be sent to his Regiment, when he may receive trial agreably to the nature of his crime before a general or regimental Court Martial, I shall take care to advertise Mr. Nait of his removal, should you assent."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Sumner, Job, 1754-1789

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