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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02174-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 June 1783
- Author/Creator
- Crane, John, 1744-1805
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Duplicate of GLC02437.02175. Discusses orders for officers to hand in returns in a timely manner concerning the "number of Officers ... and privates who will remain in service from the different corps at this post ... " Explains the return was created before all of the officers choosing to remain in service were accounted for, and since there were more officers who chose to stay than were expected, he needs to issue a new return. Had asked the officers to decide among themselves who would remain since "I do not think that I can with propriety derange any officer without his consent. If Capt. [Winthrop] Sergeant can agree with any one of the Captains to exchange[,] I will with pleasure make a new return."
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