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Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06317 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: 22 January 1795 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 24.4 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

Requests a meeting with Knox to discuss the military. Writes, "Col. Pickering presents his compliments to General Knox, and begs to be informed when it would be convenient to indulge Colonel P. with a long conversation on the military establishment of the U. States - in reference to the necessary arrangement for the current year."

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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