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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00214-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 December 1775
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Lucy Knox
- Place Written
- Lake George, New York
- Pagination
- 1p. : address : docket ; Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 15.9 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
A brief note to tell his wife that he has arrived near Fort Ticonderoga and is in good health. Comments that the battery is waiting for him, in reference to his orders from George Washington to inspect artillery seized from the British earlier that year and return with it to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written from Fort George in Lake George, New York.
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