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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04841-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 30, 1791
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Writes that Governor John Hancock "deliver'd a lengthy speech to both houses, it was a very good one, and well received, the question has frequently been asked, who wrote it." Mentions when Samuel Sewall took his seat in the Massachusetts legislature he was rejected from all quarters of the House "because he was a district Judge of the United States." A debate took place and Sewall's supporters included William Eustis and James Bowdoin, but they were in the minority. Writes, "many good Federalists are sorry that Judge Sewall made a question of this business." Talks about the favorable response to Knox's idea for a canal.
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