Randall, Thomas, ?-1811 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.05363

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
March 18, 1792
Author/Creator
Randall, Thomas, ?-1811
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Received Knox's recent letter and went to visit Colonel [Benjamin] Walker immediately. Walker had also received a letter from Knox, and "concluded to pay his acceptances and draw on you at thirty days." Discusses how Mr. [William] Duer's financial distress is causing anxiety in New York City. His friends will come forward soon with ideas to help him; the individuals with the most to lose are Mr. [Alexander] Macomb and Mr. Walter Livingston, as they have loaned him the most. Writes that so far the situation has "tended not only to greatly lower stocks (which perhaps is no real evil) but it has destroyed in a great measure private credit & confidence in all classes." Further discusses financial arrangements with Walker. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.

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