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Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Nathan Dane

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10265 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 May 1793 Pagination: 2 p. ; 39.1 x 23.3 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses difficulty with "Francis Waldo's proportion." Offers to "co-operate many reasonable measure on the part of the Flucker Family to prevent the Winslows from suffering by the omision of the bond, which I suppose they would have given if required." Asks Nathan Dane to "devise some safe remedy for the evil, if it can be done." Watermarked. Letterpress copy.

Dane was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 through 1788. In 1794 he served on a commission that reviewed and codified the laws of Massachusetts, and also is given credit for the Act of Continental Congress which encouraged European-American settlers into the Northwest Territory and formed the basis of the Constitutions of the five states there (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin).

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Dane, Nathan, 1752-1835

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