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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04427-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 December 1789
- Author/Creator
- Ward, Samuel, 1756-1832
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 19.6 cm, Width: 16.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Mentions that on his return from China, he saw Captain Thomas Randall. Randall had protested against John Searle & Co., a merchant in Madeira, who shipped bad wine on the ship "Jay." Notes that the owners of the Washington Indiaman also have a case pending against the House of Searle & Co. Asks for a copy of Randall's protest, which Randall previously sent to Knox, for use as evidence in the case against Searle.
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