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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Return of shoes and stockings received from General Thomas Mifflin's at Morristown 14 January 1777]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02887 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 21.4 cm, Width: 17.3 cm Order a Copy

Written for Henry Knox by Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Indicates the distribution of forty pairs of shoes and stockings among ten officers, Knox included. Date of creation previously inferred (but erroneously recorded as 1873) and written in pencil near the top of the page.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

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