Letter Signed

Regarding Funds to Be Used for Transporting Pratt's Company, with Regimental Clothing Supply, to the Frontier (2)

Acknowledges receipt of a letter intended for Mrs. [Nathanael] Greene, asks for instructions concerning its delivery. Notes that Lt. Pratt stopped in New York on his way from West Point to New Brunswick, where he will take charge of the clothing being sent west to the frontier garrisons. States opinion that Pratt is a faithful officer, as he has asked to be advanced a month's pay with which to fund the transportation of the clothing, if sufficient money for that purpose had not already been allocated. Inquires after Wadsworth's family. Notes with some annoyance that he has been charged for receiving letters from Wadsworth, though serving as a public servant, but admits that "they are half right on the subject." [This seems to be a reference to government-business letters being free to post, but personal letters requiring payment by the recipient; Knox may be admitting that his letters contain both government and personal communications, as this one does]

1788

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New York

Hartford, Connecticut

Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth

William Knox

Mrs. Nathanael Greene

Lieutenant Pratt

officer

public servant

clerk

Hartford, Connecticut

New York

West Point

New Brunswick

New Jersey

frontier garrison

letters

personal communications

government communications

transportation

clothing

money

delivery

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