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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02164-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 16 June 1783
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- [Certificate for Lieutenant John Thorp]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 21.7 cm, Width: 17.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Written and signed for Henry Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. This document certifies that Thorp served in the corps of artillery artificers from November 1776 to the present time. Says "his knowledge of and attention to his duty have invariably marked him an industrious and useful servant of the public." His unit being dissolved, he retires from the service agreeable to the Congressional resolution of 26 May.
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