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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02987-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 30, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Hull, William, 1753-1825
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.4 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Hull, commandant of West Point, reports he has ordered a general inoculation for smallpox among his soldiers due to a recent outbreak of the disease. Also relates that a "stragling woman" broke into and set fire to the block house, a post between West Point and New Windsor. Mortified, relates that the house was "entirely consumed." Granted Amasa Jackson, a soldier, a leave of absence although he requested a discharge. "On public service," is handwritten on address leaf.
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