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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05321-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 14, 1792
- Author/Creator
- Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written from Fort Washington, present-day Cincinnati, Ohio. Marked "Private, Personal & Confidential." Tells Knox that "a most lawless outrage was committed by a party of the soldiers on the person of a civil magistrate in the village of Cincinnati on the 12th." Believes that the incident might have been fatal to 40 or 50 people, but for the intercession of Captain Haskill, who happened to be nearby. Explains what is apparently a struggle for jurisdiction between the civil authorities (represented by himself) and the military authorities (represented by a Major Leyton).
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