Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.04245

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GLC#
GLC02437.04245-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
18 June 1789
Author/Creator
Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Pagination
4 p. : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Would like to recommend Major Henry Warren (likely her son) for the position of Collector of Customs for Plymouth and Duxborough, and mentions that he had worked with General Benjamin Lincoln. Hopes Knox might be able to use his influence with President [George] Washington to help him receive an appointment. Also ruminates on the nature of the new presidency (referring to George Washington) and the new government in the United States. "But I can contemplate perhaps with equal pleasure beneath my own private roof the felicity this people may enjoy under the administration of a Man made by Heaven to conduct War & revolution with glory to his country..." Sends her best compliments to Mrs. Knox.

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