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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00698-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 29 April 1778
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Knox
- Place Written
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.7 cm, Width: 19.4 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Writes to his brother, asking why William has not recently written. Mentions a recovered debt and an unspecified petition to be presented to Continental Congress. Inquires as to the fitting out of The General Arnold, a ship, and mentions the loss of The Hero. Expresses disappointment that his friend Harry, possibly Colonel Henry Jackson, has not arrived at Valley Forge. Regarding Jackson, remarks, "...I suppose his fat sides are so sore that he is unable to travel with any rapidity." Writes, "Our army is improving discipline and increasing in numbers every day, but this ought by no means to retard the recruits which the different states are bound by every principle of Justice & regard to themselves to send." Place written taken from docketing.
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