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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04221-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 May 1789
- Author/Creator
- Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Morrisville, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Writes, "We very much lament the occasion which hurryed you by us with out giving us a call, we hope to hear of the recovery of your Child without injury having happened to so precious a member as its Eye." He and his wife look forward to an upcoming visit with Knox and his wife. Writes that he will be leaving from Booneton [Boonton] (in New Jersey) on Monday morning, and while en route will send Knox a letter on the subject of a remittance for one of their business contacts. He and Mrs. Ogden send their love to Lucy and to "Uncle Billy," Knox's brother William. Written at Delaware Works, located in what is now Morrisville, Pennsylvania, near Trenton, New Jersey.
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