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- GLC#
- GLC02437.10074-View header record
- 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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