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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03057-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 9, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Doughty, John, 1754-1826
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 31 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Major Doughty, commander at West Point, gives a detailed report on matters at that post. Writes, "I intend with your permission to go to Congress about the first of next month upon the concern of my small Corps, to settle their account & procure them if possible some Money, for want of this very essential article, our situation is become so very necessitous as to border upon Wretchedness..." Asks for a letter from Knox introducing him to a Congressman from Massachusetts and to the President of Continental Congress (Thomas Mifflin).
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