Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Hodgdon

GLC02437.01263

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GLC#
GLC02437.01263-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
October 26, 1781
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
to Samuel Hodgdon
Place Written
Yorktown, Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : docket
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Responds to Hodgdon's letter about sending ordnance from Baltimore for the siege of Yorktown (see GLC02437.01249) and hopes news of Lord Cornwallis' surrender reached him before the ships set sail. Asks that the shell and shot be sent to Head of Elk, Maryland instead. Hodgdon was the commissary general of military stores appointed by the Board of War & Ordnance.

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