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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04671-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 August 1790
- Author/Creator
- Blair, Samuel, 1741-1818
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Germantown, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.3 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by Reverend Blair to Secretary of War Knox. Blair says his infirmities dating back to his days in the army hinder his ability to work in the "stated customary offices" of his ministry. Requests that Knox help him get a "Chaplaincy in the Congress, on their removal to Philad[elphia]. Mentions that the timing of this letter might be inconvenient as the government prepares to move from New York. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.
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