Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.07418

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GLC#
GLC02437.07418-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
29 May 1800
Author/Creator
Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
3 p. : address ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Williams writes Knox about his son Henry Jackson Knox and hopes that his son intends to return to his ship. Williams comments on the changes in the administration "which I think forebodes a settlement of some sort or other with France." Williams says it is assumed that Adams will lose the next election. Talks about a meeting of Federalists who want to run Pinckney and Adams "equally", which Adams will see as abandonment. "He wishes rather to take the chance of being second to Jeff than to P." Relates a letter James McHenry sent to him saying that he wished Williams to have a post in the Secretary of State's department. Williams accepted and began the work, only to be told by President [John] Adams that he was appointing someone else.

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