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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 To the United States in Congress Assembled

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10074 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: circa December 1782 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 35 cm, Width: 23 cm Order a Copy

Appears to be Knox's draft of his presentation of officers' grievances to Congress: "At this period of the War it is with peculiar pain, that we find ourselves constrained to address your august body in matters of a pecuniary nature." Agrees to half pay "upon condition that each State shall become responsible to its officers for the payment of a certain number of years of full pay which may be specified."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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