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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03663-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 14 September 1787
- Author/Creator
- Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Recommends Major Reading Howell, the bearer of this letter, who is collecting materials in order to create an accurate map of Pennsylvania. Writes, "It has been suggested that some surveys taken for the use of the Army during the War, & now supposed to be lodged in the War Office, may be particularly useful on this occasion." Asks for Knox to give Howell access to the War Office surveys and maps. See GLC02437.03665 for related document.
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