Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06357 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 February 1795 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 32.3 x 20.6 cm. Order a Copy
States that Paul Rever has his howitzers ready to bore and asks if they should be proved. Pickering feels this might be a waste of ammunition and asks for Knox's opinion. Noted as written at the War Office.
War Office Feby 18. 1795
Dear Sir,
In a letter dated Jany 12th, Paul Revere says he has his Howitzers ready to bore, and asks if they are to be proved: adding - "I cannot See that it will answer and end to prove them; but only a waste of ammunition ; for you can only fill the chamber with power, and change it with a shell."_ His reasoning I should suppose just: if not will you be so good as to express your opinion?
respectfully yours
T. Pickering
Genl Knox
[address leaf]
General Knox
[docket]
Colo Pickering.
18 Feby 1795 -
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