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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00525-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 30, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 16.6 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Recommends a young officer named Ebenezer Finley to Knox's artillery corps Finley is "intimately acquainted with those branches of knowledge with are connected with the Science of war." Is currently a third lieutenant in another artillery group, but has been offered command of a Maryland infantry company. But since "his genius & inclinations both mark him for the artillery," Rush is hoping top secure him a company of artillery under Knox instead. States Finley is also "a perfect little gentleman." Also mentions that his father is the late Doctor Samuel Finley, the President of the College of New Jersey, now called Princeton, where Ebenezer was a graduate. "On public service" written on address leaf.
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