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- GLC#
- GLC02437.10064-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 November 1782
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Benjamin Lincoln
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 35 cm, Width: 23.2 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Knox, commander at West Point, writes to General Lincoln. Mentions a recent application by Continental Army officers to the State of Massachusetts regarding half pay. Knox reports the decision has been postponed, mainly because of Osgood (Samuel Osgood, Massachusetts's delegate to Continental Congress). Regarding the officers, writes, "something must be done to relieve their present distress, which is intolerable- and they must have a full confidence concerning the execution of the half pay whether in its present form, or in some other that may be more agreable..."
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