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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09429-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 August 1794
- Author/Creator
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Germantown, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket : address Height: 23 cm, Width: 18.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Marked 'private' by George Washington at the top of page one. Discusses an insurrection (the Whiskey Rebellion) and mentions a letter from [Attorney General William] Bradford concerning Colonel [John] Neville and Major [David] Lenox (the federal inspector and U.S. marshal, respectively, who had fled the area of disturbance in western Pennsylvania). Based on the new information, gives consent to Knox to absent himself from government to manage affairs on his plantation in frontier Maine.
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