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Waters, Josiah, fl. 1776-1794 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00249 Author/Creator: Waters, Josiah, fl. 1776-1794 Place Written: Windham, Connecticut Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 February 1776 Pagination: 1 p. : docket : address Height: 31 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Congratulates Knox on a safe return from Fort Ticonderoga, where he was retrieving artillery pieces for the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Has had trouble obtaining books on military fortification and asks Knox, who had been a bookseller in Boston, if he could find some. Asks Knox to inform him of what maneuvers are being planned against the British, and promises it will "be most sacredly kept." Mentions that the saltpeter (a compound used in gunpowder) works are proceeding rapidly.

Waters, Josiah, fl. 1776-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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