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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.01706
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0048] November 1782 
Title Henry Knox to Samuel Hugg about his finances
Date 11 November 1782
Author Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Additional authors Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794)
Recipient Hugg, Samuel  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Written and signed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. In response to Hugg's last letter, Knox sends a certificate of the money Hugg received from the recruiting service in 1777, based on Knox's recruiting accounts. He cannot include a certificate declaring the number of men Hugg enlisted because all of Hugg's receipts were submitted along with the accounts at the time. Also includes a certificate for the money advanced to Captain Lieutenant Joseph Dayton for his recruiting services. Writes, "These two sums, amounting to 900 Dollars, are all that were supplied by me, and it is not in my power to give any other certificate whatsoever than those now sent." At the bottom of the page are the two certificates, one declaring that Hugg received 600 dollars for recruiting a company of artillery in 1776, and the other declaring that Dayton received 300 dollars in 1777. See GLC02437.01684 for a related document.
Subjects Revolutionary War  Revolutionary War General  Soldier's Pay  Finance  Continental Army  Military History  Recruitment  Artillery  
People Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794)  Hugg, Samuel (fl. 1782)  Dayton, Joseph (fl. 1782)  
Place written West Point, New York
Theme The American Revolution; Industry
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Related documents Letter from Samuel Hugg to Henry Knox about recruitment  Samuel Hugg to Henry Knox requesting a certificate