- GLC#
- GLC02437.03022-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 June 1784
- Author/Creator
- Doughty, John, 1754-1826
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Major Doughty encloses returns of the ordnance stores and troops under his command. Plans to wait for clothing to arrive before sending a party of soldiers to Springfield, Massachusetts. Writes, "I have the Happiness to inform you that the greatest good order has prevailed in the discharge of the Troops from this place-" Reports a theft of stores. Reports on other events at West Point, thanking Knox for his charge.
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