Unknown [Rental agreement between Henry Knox and Walter Livingston]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04062 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 26 December 1788 Pagination: 1 p. ; 11.8 x 19.8 cm. Order a Copy
Unsigned, and addressee unlisted. Author may be Walter Livingston, writing about himself in the third person. Addressee may be Henry Knox; see his response at GLC02437.04061. Writes, "Mr. Walter Livingston cannot permit general Knox to be disappointed in not getting the home on account of the Rent. Mr. Livingston will build the stable, Paint and paper the second & third stories and general Knox shall have the House at the price he supposed he had engaged it on Wednesday last viz. L260 specie and taxes."
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