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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03390-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 December 1786
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Shepard
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses his inability to provide arms and stores to be used against the insurgents in Massachusetts (those associated with Shays' Rebellion). States that he cannot do so without the special permission of Congress. Writes that he has not received any word on the subject from Governor [James] Bowdoin, but if he does, he will immediately submit it to Congress.
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