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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03793-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 10, 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Robert R. Livingston
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 33.6 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Original of GLC02437.03790. Knox relates details of the Massachusetts ratifying convention: "On Wednesday the 30th ultimo, Mr. Hancock was well enough to take his seat in the convention. On Thursday he brought forward the proposition for adopting the Constitution, and for recommending certain alterations agreeably to the paper herein enclosed [not included]. The propositions were seconded by Mr. Samuel Adams, and committed to a large committee being Federalists." Notes that the friends of Hancock and [James] Bowdoin have united on the issue. Reports, "Handsome things are said of the open and decisive conduct of Mr. Hancock and also of Mr. S. Adams, notwithstanding his neutrality in the first part of the business."
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