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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02771-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 November 1783
- Author/Creator
- Clinton, George, 1739-1812
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Poughkeepsie, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 16.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses the delays of the British evacuation of New York City. States that they have to "wait Sir Guy's [Carleton] Pleasure and I fear considering the advanced season that he will put myself as well as many other Citizens who cannot think of removing their families into the City until his Departure, to great Inconveniencies and Difficulties."
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