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United States. Continental Congress. [Resolution]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02730 Author/Creator: United States. Continental Congress. Place Written: Princeton, New Jersey Type: Manuscript document Date: 30 October 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 23.4 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Charles Thomson as Secretary of Congress. Copy of a resolution allowing General Henry Knox to have the "pay of a major general in a separate department, during his command at West Point ... " Intended for presentation to Congress on October 31st. Written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp.

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

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