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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01182-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 11 September 1781
- Author/Creator
- Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 2 p. : ; docket ;
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Reports that General Mordecai Gist received permission from Governor of Maryland Thomas S. Lee to take the cannons Knox was seeking. Bauman is attempting to get vessels to transport troops as well as other supplies. Mr. Thorp has arrived and answers to Knox's questions about supplies (see GLC02437.01178) will be forthcoming. Jokes in a post script: "I have but six hands, so assist me in the business you have sent me on!" The Continental Army was preparing for the upcoming siege of Yorktown.
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