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Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00241 Author/Creator: Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804 Place Written: Westfield, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: January 12, 1776 Pagination: 1p. : docket : Height: 8.6 cm, Width: 16.2 cm Order a Copy

Certifies that a Lieutenant Gray "has rode Cannon Seven Miles." Refers to the artillery transport from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge, Massachusetts that Knox was overseeing. Contemporary secretarial signature.

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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