Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to John Hancock

GLC04109

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GLC#
GLC04109
Type
Letters
Date
16 August 1793
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
to John Hancock
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 24.4 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Knox, Secretary of War, discusses President George Washington's orders regarding captured naval prizes. Requests that Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, restore any naval prizes brought into the harbors and ports of Massachusetts to the master or owner at the time of capture. Orders that if it is impossible to discern the identity of the vessel's former master, it should be delivered to the person "to which the prize belonged at the time of its capture."

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