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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00254-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 25, 1776
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Burbeck
- Place Written
- Newton, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1p. : docket : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 16.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Asks Colonel Burbeck to procure horses and carts, and move some artillery pieces from Prospect Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts, after assessing the road in the daytime. Notes that he would have done this himself if his wife, Lucy Knox, was not currently ill.
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