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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03851-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 April 1788
- Author/Creator
- Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses a financial matter involving warrants and a sheriff, of whom Wadsworth writes, "I find the sherif will fight hard and tho no body justifies him-" Notes that the sheriff received ill treatment in the office of Mr. Milligan. Plans to travel to the Greene residence, referring to the home of Catharine Littlefield Greene, widow of the late General Nathanael Greene. Notes that if Mrs. Greene consents, he will send George Washington Greene on the next packet for France. Requests that Knox ask St. John (possibly Crevecoeur) if he knows of any officers who might attend to George on the passage. Writes, "I am impatient to have this Boy in a situation where he may acquire knowledge... a Boy under the direction of Any Mother will hardly ever be good for any thing."
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