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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03475-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 28, 1787
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Jeremiah Wadsworth
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Informs he has persuaded the board of treasury to give orders on Mr. Imlay for $3000, which Knox encloses in another public letter of this same date. States that if Wadsworth could negotiate $1000 more, he will try to get the board to give that sum solely to be applied to the subsistence of the officers and the pay of the men of Colonel [David] Humphreys corps. The money being paid to Wadsworth was related to raising troops that were used to quell Shays' Rebellion. Writes that Congress will probably discuss the troops soon, "it is most likely they must be reduced however keep this entirely a secret." Marked private.
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