Knox, William, 1756-1795 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.03987-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
16 September 1788
Author/Creator
Knox, William, 1756-1795
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
3 p. : docket ; Height: 31.9 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Reports on personal matters and War Office business. Relates that Colonel [Edward] Carrington will accompany Lucy Knox from Trenton to New York. Discusses reports from Governor Arthur St. Clair and General Josiah Harmar on Indians in the Northwest Territory. Says "many Indians have arrived at Fort Pitt...as yet it is uncertain whether they [sic] will be a great meeting of Indians or not, as many seem inclined to attend the Treaty at Detroit." Both Harmar and St. Clair fear "the worst consequences might be apprehended to the posts in case hostilities should take place, as it would be in the power of the Savages, to cut off the communications to them." Notes that Major [John] Doughty sent Knox a return, and Jeremiah Wadsworth returned to New York.

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