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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01699 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: Newburgh, New York Type: Autograph letter Date: 4 November 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 23.4 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy

Signature has been clipped, but author Colonel Timothy Pickering is mentioned in the docket. Writes, "Agreeably to our mutual determination when last I had the pleasure of seeing you, I am content to receive Mr. Moses Dean again into my department, and to be responsible for his pay, which is to be equal to the monthly pay of a lieutenant in Capt. Patton's [perhaps Thomas Patten's] company of artificers. If you please this pay may commence the fifth day of the present month. I will thank you for a certificate that he will from that day be omitted in the pay-rolls of Capt. Patton's company."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1738-1805
Dean, Moses, fl. 1782-1783

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