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Unknown Sundry accounts to General Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10011 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 17 January 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 40.5 cm. x 16.8 cm. Order a Copy

Date from docket. Apparently a quartermaster's account. Includes a list of named captains under Knox, including A[lexander] Hamilton, and corresponding figures (possibly their pay or money allotted for their use for supplies, etc). A note in Samuel Shaw's hand at the bottom of page one includes account information for General [Thomas] Mifflin and Colonel [Stephen] Moylan.

Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
Moylan, Stephen, 1737-1811
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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