Crane, John, 1744-1805 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.02175-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
22 June 1783
Author/Creator
Crane, John, 1744-1805
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
West Point, New York
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 34.2 cm, Width: 21.4 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Duplicate of GLC02437.02174. Discusses orders for officers to hand in returns in a timely manner concerning the "number of Officers ... and privates who will remain in service from the different corps at this post ... " Explains the return was created before all of the officers choosing to remain in service were accounted for, and since there were more officers who chose to stay than were expected, he needs to issue a new return. Had asked the officers to decide among themselves who would remain since "I do not think that I can with propriety derange any officer without his consent. If Capt. [Winthrop] Sergeant can agree with any one of the Captains to exchange[,] I will with pleasure make a new return." Noted as a copy and includes a return on the verso, listing the men by name and rank. Signed in a secretarial hand by Captain Henry Burbeck.

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