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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02939-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 31, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 17.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Pickering, Quartermaster General, asks Knox to write an official request to justify the allowance Pickering granted for the transportation of discharged officers' baggage (after they were discharged, many officers had difficulty traveling home). In a post script, suggests Knox assigns an earlier date to his official certificate.
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