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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03588-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 June 1787
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 29.7 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Informs Knox that "[t]he people are all at Meeting, and from a dead silence, the streets are all in an uproar, with the cry of fire - fire - fire - the Bells are ringing, & the streets thronged with men." Mentions that the town is in uproar but now the fire has been put out. Briefly touches on Massachusetts politics, mentioning appointments of [Thomas] Dawes and Benjamin Hichborn. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.
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