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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01948-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- February 23, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Artillery artificers at West Point
- Title
- [Address of artillery artificers to Henry Knox]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 34.3 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Petition given to Major General Knox on behalf of the artillery artificers at West Point to be delivered to General Washington. They were angry after "having found our Selves intitled by the General Orders, to draw some Weekly pay rest Verry much dissatisfied Concerning the same. Says they will remain on duty until means to pay them can be found. Contains 59 signatures, 3 of whom left their mark with an "x."
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