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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Certificate for Richard Frothingham]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02813 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: November 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.3 x 18.4 cm. Order a Copy

Certifies that Richard Frothingham served as the field commissary of military stores under Knox. Written and signed in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

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