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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.01638 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0047] October 1782 |
Title | Henry Knox to Ephraim Fenno about replenishing stores and carpenters |
Date | 3 October 1782 |
Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Additional authors | Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) |
Document Type | Military document; Correspondence |
Content Description | Written and initialed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Writes, "I have received your letter enclosing a return of stores now at Verplancks and Stony Points. The deficiencies, as far as will complete each piece of ordnance to one hundred rounds of ball and twenty of grape shot, shall be sent down as soon as possible - also the carpenters tools as far as they can be supplied. I shall take an opportunity of reporting to the commander in chief the situation of those posts with respect to the guards of infantry who do duty there." |
Subjects | Revolutionary War Revolutionary War General Continental Army Muster Rolls and Returns Military Supplies Artillery Ammunition Artisans Infantry |
People | Fenno, Ephraim (fl. 1776-1784) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Washington, George (1732-1799) |
Place written | West Point, New York |
Theme | The American Revolution |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |