Henry Knox, A.L.S. "Off Pool's Island" 10 Sept. 1781 : to General Mordecai Gist

Henry Knox, A.L.S. "Off Pool's Island" 10 Sept. 1781 : to General Mordecai Gist

[S.l.] 1781

[2] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 23 cm.

MSS L2007F5 M

Knox in search of supplies for his artillery while en route to Yorktown, "I send Mr. Thorp, an officer of my artificers, to Baltimore for plank for platforms and some for cartridges ... the service is so extremely urgent and I have no doubt of every exertion in your power. Baltimore is the only place from which it can be provided, and if it is there, it must be had, on any terms, even by an impress by the civil magistrates. I pray you also ... to obtain four coils of white rope of 352 inches circumference and 120 fathoms deep. I have been disappointed in procurring this from Philadelphia. I have no doubt considering the importance of these articles, that payment may be provided for them in the course of two or three months. I am preceeding troops down the bay, in order to arrange matters in my department ..."

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