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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03286-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 July 1786
- Author/Creator
- North, William, 1755-1836
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Written by Major William North, Inspector of the Army who was stationed in the environs of Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh. Discusses inspection of military stores at Fort McIntosh, the best place to keep the stores, the inhabitants of Pittsburgh (he spells it "Pittsburg"), and the Indian nations in the area. Copy, written in the hand of War Department secretary Robert Pemberton and signed by him for North.
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