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Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Samuel Hodgdon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01613.06 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Letter signed Date: 27 November 1794 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Tells Hodgdon, the Superintendent of Military Stores of the United States Army, to suspend the sending of clothing for the militia then engaged in the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion, because of the arrival of Colonel Hamilton, possibly Alexander Hamilton. Written from the War Department.

...Colonel Hamilton having arrived it may be proper to suspend the sending of the clothing ordered yesterday until further opportunity of talking with him-…

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

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