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Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Lieutenant Price

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01024 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph document Date: 6 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 30.9 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Orders Price to inspect stores arriving from Rhode Island. Also gives Price orders regarding ordnance and stores arriving from Springfield, Massachusetts. Mentions Captain Seward and John Ruddock.

William Price was in charge of the laboratory at West Point.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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