Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.04426-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
December 6, 1789
Author/Creator
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Hartford, Connecticut
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Wadsworth returns the warrants that Knox requested (refer to GLC02437.04422). Sends news that his family is recovering from influenza. Discusses the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution: "Our friend the Marquis is indeed in a perilous situation, but he is in great spirits & I hope will succeed. Tho I fear they are [aiming] at more liberty than is consistent with good Government, I do not think France can for a great many years to come be governed by a very free Liberal system - but they were before wretched enough & it was time to make an experiment they could loose nothing but their Heads (the common people) & they could spare them well enough. if nobody had told them they were wretched I think they would not soon have found it out."

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