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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02965-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 24, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Bryant, John, 1742-1816
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 34.3 cm, Width: 23 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Captain Bryant encloses a return of stores at Springfield (not included). Reports on other events at Springfield, including a disagreement over the rights to a house on Captain George Pynchon's land. Reports that when General [Benjamin] Lincoln was at Springfield, he dismissed the men stationed there, ordering Bryant to make out a pay roll. Bryant complains that Lincoln thereafter sent money to the men, but not to him: "I have near twenty five months pay due and know not who to apply to for aney [sic] but to your Honour- necessity has obliged me to run in debt..."
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