Transportation for Captain Cushing and Ninety Recruits
Document 1791Knox instructs Bray to provide transportation for the baggage of Captain Cushing and ninety recruits as they travel from New Brunswick to Trenton.
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War-department,
Oct. 12th 1791.
Sir.
Captain Cushing, with ninety recruits, may be expected hourly, to arrive at New Brunswick from New England— On his arrival, I request that you will please to procure him the means of transportation, for the baggage of this detachment, as far as Trenton, and any other assistance he may require to expedite his march.—
I am Sir,
Your very humble Serv.t
H Knox
[Address: M.r John Bray.]
[Docket: Gen Knox / Oct.r [undecipherable] 12. 1791]
[Left margin notation on cover: John Bray / m.t Noble / Confidential]
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed
Description
Knox instructs Bray to provide transportation for the baggage of Captain Cushing and ninety recruits as they travel from New Brunswick to Trenton.
Date
10/12/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1791101200101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Bray
Henry Knox
Notable locations
War Department

