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Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 to Hawes

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02046 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter signed Date: 31 March 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 32.9 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

Requests Captain Hawes to "furnish for the use of the Artillery as many buttons as General Knox shall report to you are required for that Corps." Noted as written at the War Office. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.02047.

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
Hawes, fl. 1783

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