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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02748-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 30 - November 1, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.8 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Copy of a letter dated 1 November 1783 from Benjamin Lincoln to Robert Morris, along with a copy of a Congressional resolution dated 30 October 1783. The letter and the resolution concern Congress's decision that Henry Knox should be allowed the pay of a Major General in a separate department during his command at West Point. The original resolution was signed by Charles Thomson, miscopied here as "Thompson." Copies written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp.
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