Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01913 Author/Creator: Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 12, 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.6 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy
Informs Knox that he will be passing through Knox's garrison with his own regiment and asks for Knox's advice concerning traveling down a river. Also tells Knox that "Col. Frank Barber of the Jersey Line was yesterday afternoon Kille'd [sic] dead on the spot, by the fall of a tree as he was going home to diner [sic] his horse was kill'd also." Noted as written at Huts.
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