Cobb, David, 1748-1830 to General Kingsley
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01279 Author/Creator: Cobb, David, 1748-1830 Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 November 1781 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy
Communicates orders from General George Washington to expeditiously load all the stores that are being transported to Head Of Elk, Maryland onto vessels. Anything that cannot fit should be loaded onto French ships. The ordnance being transported had been used in the siege of Yorktown. Probably intended for Henry Knox. Docket written in Henry Knox's hand. Cobb was an aide-de-camp to Washington.
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