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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Henry Burbeck

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03978 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 29 August 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 29.5 cm, Width: 18.9 cm Order a Copy

Informs Captain Burbeck, commander at West Point, that Noah Hall, the bearer of this note, hopes to purchase "some of the old unserviceable iron cannon at West Point." Instructs Burbeck to sell Hall fifteen tons of the cannon at fourteen dollars per ton.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

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