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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Diego Gardoqui y Arriquibar

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03541 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 May 1787 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Asks Don Diego de Gardoqui to help a soldier, Captain Thomas Wooster, the son of General David Wooster of Connecticut. Wooster needs to go to Trinidad on personal business and Knox requests that Gardoqui give a letter of introduction to the Governor of that island.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Diego, 1735-1798

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