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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Timothy Pickering

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10170 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript letter Date: 18 October 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 35.1 cm, Width: 23.5 cm Order a Copy

Informs Colonel Pickering there will be a sergeant and twelve men to cut wood for the department to send to Newbury and that "time grows more and more precious daily." Mentions that he has received complaints about soldiers cutting wood without permission and so he has "issued an order, that no wood be cut except at such places as shall be directed..." Noted as a copy in the bottom left hand corner. Watermarked with a crown.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

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