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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01901-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 8, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Prowd, Charles, fl. 1783
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 19 cm, Width: 17.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Written by Prowd, a former artificer for the Continental Army to Major General Knox. Says that Colonel Frothingham has his pay and would like Knox to help him get it. Says he needs it badly as he is sick. Says his wife is also ill. Reports that "I Received no pay this Three Years and better, Which Please your Honr. is Very hard for me to live in Such Sircumstances." Postscript sends condolences for the death of his child.
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