Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 To the United States in Congress Assembled

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Type
Documents
Date
circa December 1782
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
To the United States in Congress Assembled
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 35 cm, Width: 23 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Appears to be Knox's draft of his presentation of officers' grievances to Congress: "At this period of the War it is with peculiar pain, that we find ourselves constrained to address your august body in matters of a pecuniary nature." Agrees to half pay "upon condition that each State shall become responsible to its officers for the payment of a certain number of years of full pay which may be specified."

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