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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01282-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 November 1781
- Author/Creator
- Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr., 1740-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. communicates a request from George Washington asking Knox to send a copy of the information Washington is to incorporate into a letter to Governor of Virginia Thomas Nelson. Washington also wants a list of the cannons Knox proposed be sold to reimburse William Ross. Possibly concerns indemnification for impressed supplies needed for the siege of Yorktown. Washington recently wrote a letter to the Governor of Maryland under similar circumstances (see GLC02437.01273). Trumbull was Washington's military secretary. Knox's reply appears in GLC02437.01286.
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