Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02152 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: Newburgh, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 June 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 23.4 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy
Asks on behalf of other quarter masters what they should do with spare ammunition as the "brigades in this vicinity are dissolved and dissolving." "On public service" written on address leaf with no signature.
Newburgh, June 7. 1783
Sir,
The brigades in this vicinity are dissolved and dissolving. The quarter masters ask what is to be done with their Spare ammunition. Will you be pleased to [take] order concerning [it]?
I am Sir
your most obedt Servt
Tim: Pickering
Q.M.G.
MGenl Knox
[address leaf]
The Honourable
Major General Knox
West Point
[docket]
From
Col Pickering
7 June 1783
[free frank]
On public Service
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