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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Certificate for Elias Parker]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04134 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 3 March 1789 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 32.4 x 20.7 cm. Order a Copy

Certifies that Elias Parker served under Knox in the artillery, but was then transferred by his own request to the Massachusetts line of infantry. Possibly docketed by Henry Knox.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Parker, Elias, fl. 1789

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