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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03819-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 10, 1788
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Reports that he has been absent from Boston, attending a meeting of the Ohio Company in Providence, Rhode Island. Is pleased to find Knox has several shares of Ohio Company land. Predicts that New Hampshire will ratify the Constitution and Rhode Island will not. Hopes that John Hancock and Benjamin Lincoln will win the next election for governor and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts respectively. Notes that the Anti-Federalists and the "Insurgent influence" will support [James] Warren and [Elbridge] Gerry for the positions. Further discusses politics.
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