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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Comfort Sands

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01439 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 June 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 18.6 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy

Informs Sands, a previous supplier of military goods [see GLC02437.01301], that a "few barrells of neats foot oyl are wanted for the musquets & cartridge boxes of the Army," and he wants to know whether Sands can supply them, and what the terms might be.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Sands, Comfort, 1748-1834

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