Crane, John, 1744-1805 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.09684

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
March 11, 1783
Author/Creator
Crane, John, 1744-1805
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
West Point, New York
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 21 cm, Width: 16.8 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Consists of two letters written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp. In the first, which composes the top half of the page, Colonel Crane and Lieutenant Colonel Stevens inform Major General Knox that upon inspection, a quantity of salted beef in the contractor's store has been found "unmerchantable and unfit for use." The bottom half of the page consists of a letter from Knox to [Daniel] Parker and [William] Duer. Knox informs them that the beef is putrefied and "grows worse and worse, so that I have been obliged to order the inspection."

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