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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04721-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 November 1790
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Hannah Harwood
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 20.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Secretary of War Knox writes to his sister-in-law Hannah acknowledging her letter to him the previous June. Knox believes Hannah has done all she can to "consistently" tell Mr. Longman '"the state of things." Knox discusses his land dealings and values, and the prospects of obtaining and selling different lands. States that his brother will deliver this letter and will update her on family news. Reports that they will soon move to Philadelphia (the United States government moved from New York to Philadelphia in December 1790).
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