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- GLC#
- GLC02437.10242-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 December 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Caleb Swan
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 7 p. : Height: 40.3 cm, Width: 23.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Outlines instructions about an audit for the Treasury Department. States that "the Levie and Militia serving on the Frontier under Major general St. Clair should have their accounts regularly adjusted and the balance paid to the officers and soldiers respectively, previously to their discharge at Fort Washington ... " Goes on to write that this is an important business and that he trusts Caleb Swan to carry it out, especially since the amount needed to carry these instructions out is a "considerable sum of money which are delivered to [Caleb Swan's] care and safe keeping ... " Noted as No. 10. Extensive water damage in the upper left corner. Letterpress copy.
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