Putnam, Samuel, 1768-1843 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.02703

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GLC#
GLC02437.02703-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
October 23, 1783
Author/Creator
Putnam, Samuel, 1768-1843
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 p. : docket ; Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 19 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Discusses his observations concerning the public view of commutation. States that there is still general prejudice against officers especially by "lower class of people" but that the prejudice is abating. Mentions a "Lake Erie Scheme," the prospect of settling the western lands and a meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati.

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