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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Hugh Hughes

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01027 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 6 July 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 32.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Informs Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, that the artillery park will move from New Windsor the following day. Notes that Colonel Ebenezer Stevens "will be here to morrow, please to let me know on what we are to depend when we shall arrive at Peekskill."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Hughes, Hugh, 1727-1802

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