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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Invoice of payments to Henry Knox from the Unites States] [incomplete]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00527 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa January 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 15.2 cm, Width: 22.8 cm Order a Copy

List of payments made to Knox by the United States between November 1775 and January 1777. Includes dates payments were made, what they were for, how much they were for, and who actually gave the money to Knox. Figures include pay for Knox and his men as well as money for blankets during their expedition to retrieve cannon from Fort Ticonderoga during the winter of 1775-1776, pay and recruiting fees throughout 1776, and money to be distributed as a bounty in January 1777.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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