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- GLC#
- GLC02437.06694-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 April 1796
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written from the "Department of State." Pickering informs Knox of his appointment by President George Washington to a commission to determine the Eastern boundary of the United States on the St. Croix River in Maine [as stipulated by Jay's Treaty of November 1794]. Writes that the commission's work will be delayed indefinitely due to complications with the British in those territories, but as soon as those issues are corrected, Knox can begin. Explains the pay rate for Knox's position and estimates how long the job will take. Hopes he will accept the appointment.
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