Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Ebenezer Stevens
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01078 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Sleepy Hollow, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 19.1 x 15.6 cm. Order a Copy
Directed to Lieutenant Colonel Stevens at "Kings Ferry, Westpoint, or New Windsor." Informs Stevens to suspend his movement to Kings Ferry if he is not already there, reporting that "Two twenty Gun ships, two sloops, and a galley belonging to the Enemy" have just passed up the river. Orders Stevens to get all stores on shore if he is at Kings Ferry, as Knox fears losing the stores to the British. Adds, "His Excellency the General has given me orders to risque no peices [sic] or stores..." Written at Philipsburgh, New York (present-day Sleepy Hollow).
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