Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Notice of payment sent to Jeremiah Wadsworth]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03543 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 5 May 1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 32.4 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Knox's warrant to Wadsworth to pay $3000 to Captain Joseph Wilcox "paymaster to the quota of troops raised by the state of Connecticut agreeably to the resolve of Congress of the 20th of October 1786...being the amount of an order of the board of Treasury on William Imlay Esqr. receiver of continental taxes for the state of Connecticut..." The troops were raised to quell Shays's Rebellion. Noted as written at the War Office.
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