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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.03167 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0075] May-August 1785 |
Title | Thomas Walker to Henry Knox regarding money he was granted for his military service |
Date | 21 July 1785 |
Author | Walker, Thomas (fl. 1785) |
Recipient | Walker, Thomas |
Document Type | Correspondence; Government document; Military document |
Content Description | Colonel Walker requests that Knox assist him in obtaining money he was granted by a Congressional Resolution of 15 April 1785, likely for his military service. Notes receipt of a bill from an unspecified board via Mr. Lovell, possibly James Lovell, former Massachusetts Continental Congressman and receiver of continental taxes. Writes, "I need not observe to you Sir that, when the draft is paid, upon Mr. Lovell, it will not reimburse me, for the expenses I have been at, in the solicitation." |
Subjects | Military History Revolutionary War Revolutionary War General Continental Army Continental Congress Congress Finance Soldier's Pay Government and Civics |
People | Walker, Thomas (fl. 1785) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Lovell, James (1737-1814) |
Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
Theme | Government & Politics; 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 |