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Knox, William, 1756-1795 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04031 Author/Creator: Knox, William, 1756-1795 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 12 November 1788 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

William, managing affairs at the War Office in Henry's absence, reports on military matters. Mentions Lieutenant [John] Pratt , [John] Stagg, Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth and others involved with the logistics of organizing Pratt's march to Fort Pitt. Discusses clothing, wagons, and horses readied for the march. Comments on Ensign Luce, who was to join Lieutenant Pratt on his march to Fort Pitt: "The only trouble was with Luce, who was arrested for debt by a variety of people at Brunswick where he has a pretty bad name... indeed he is a bad bargain to the U States." Discusses the daughter of St. John, who Knox was escorting from Jeremiah Wadsworth's (in Connecticut) to New York City (possibly a reference to Hector St. John de Crevecoeur). Remarks that he still has a swollen face, but Dr. Bailey will allow him to go out with a plaster on his cheek.

Knox, William, 1756-1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813
Pratt, John, 1753-1824
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
Stagg, John, Jr., 1758-1803
Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

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