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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02152 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: Newburgh, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 June 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 23.4 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy

Asks on behalf of other quarter masters what they should do with spare ammunition as the "brigades in this vicinity are dissolved and dissolving." "On public service" written on address leaf with no signature.

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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