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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03531-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 April 1787
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William North
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 20.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses Congress's decision to reduce the troops and states, "I feel most sensibly for the situation of the officers." In relation to North's resignation as Inspector General, states that he did not forward it on and that if North desires, he can probably resume the duties of that post (see GLC02437.03528 and .03495). Comments that Colonel Hull wrote to him about the issue with North's relative rank but believes it is something the state must decide.
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