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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07107-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 March 1798
- Author/Creator
- Ripley, John P., fl. 1798
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 34.5 cm, Width: 20.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Asks for Knox's help in re-obtaining his position as a lieutenant in the corps of "Artillerists and Engineers." Apparently he had received his appointment while he was abroad and hurried back to America as soon as he could, only to find that the position had been filled, even though he had never declined the offer.
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