to Henry Knox

Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.07189-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
11 November 1798
Author/Creator
Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Discusses Knox's declination of an army commission, and his own views on service. Knox had declined a commission in the army raised during the quasi-war when he learned that Alexander Hamilton would outrank him. Noted as written at Mount Pleasant.

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