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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03934-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 July 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Rufus King
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.4 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses the possible ratification of the United States Constitution by New York: "I have received no letters from Colonel Hamilton or any others of the convention, that will warrant the idea in any degree- but there has been a buz for a few days past that the convention would adopt the constitution and afterwards state strongly some material amendments..."
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