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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03988-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 September 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, William, 1756-1795
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Notes that Colonel [Edward] Carrington will escort Lucy Knox from Trenton, New Jersey, where she is visiting friends, to New York. Mentions The Alliance, a ship owned by Robert Morris. Was informed by [Alexander] Hamilton at dinner the previous evening that an unspecified business matter related to Henry Knox has not yet been addressed in Congress. Comments on a board appointed by Congress to settle accounts connected with the United States. The board consists of William Irvine, Abraham Baldwin, and Nicholas Gilman. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.
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