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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07577-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 August 1801
- Author/Creator
- Joy, Benjamin, 1758-1830
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.1 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Discusses business transactions involving timber and lime. Appears to complain about a shipment of timber being short and the long pieces being cut. Threatens to prosecute the shipper who delivered the timber unless the shipper can replace the missing timber. Requests more timber and two long pieces. Also mentions other items he would like Knox to ship to him. Expresses his sympathies in the troubles Knox is having with the squatters (likely in Maine).
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