- GLC#
- GLC02437.02725-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 30, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Newburgh, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 18.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
States that Mr. Denniston has applied to him for boards but that he is unable to purchase any. Plans on pulling down buildings at Wappings [Wappingers] Creek to use for board. Teams will haul the wood to the Point [West Point]. Mentions in the postscript that there are five travelling forges at Newburgh that he is reluctant to sell because they are "particularly related to the artillery."
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