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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06357 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 February 1795 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 32.3 x 20.6 cm. Order a Copy

States that Paul Rever has his howitzers ready to bore and asks if they should be proved. Pickering feels this might be a waste of ammunition and asks for Knox's opinion. Noted as written at the War Office.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818

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