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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01110-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 August 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Reuben Smith
- Place Written
- Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 19.1 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Discusses convening a court martial to try charges of malpractice brought against William Richards, deputy commissary of military stores at Litchfield, Connecticut (Smith, also at Litchfield, had previously divulged information about Richards's conduct). Written at Phillipsburg (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York).
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