Knox, Henry (1750-1806) State of the invalid officers
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02208 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: June 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 35 x 21.5 cm. Order a Copy
Knox's working draft for an Inspection Board report on the Invalid Regiment. Lists eleven invalid officers and their assigned pensions. The report is for the following officers: Captain [John] McGowen, Captain [John] Riley, Captain [Moses] McFarland, Captain Lieutenant [William] McL.Hatton [McElhatton], Lieutenant [Osgood] Carleton, Lieutenant [Jonathan] Pugh, Lieutenant [Talmage] Hall, Captain [Thomas] Arnold, Lieutenant [William] Mainard [Maynard], Lieutenant [Samuel] Gibbs, and Captain [David] Dorance. Date and title taken from docket. See GLC02437.02882 for a related component of this document with more details on each officer's disability or illness.
The June 10, 1783 final version is in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress. The final is clerically written and probably signed for Henry Knox. This report was prepared in response to Washington's June 8, 1783 general orders to prepare an inspection of the Invalid Corps.
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