Peirce, Joseph (1745-1828) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04856 Author/Creator: Peirce, Joseph (1745-1828) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 February 1791 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 30.4 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Writes Knox to discuss the "business of Mr. Flucker's Estate." Says he has heard from the debtors and "they seem disposed to pay as fast as they can." There are some obstacles with some of the debtors that the letter details. Notes General [Josiah] Harmar's expedition "was unsuccessful." Insists that Knox "must send a powerful force of regular troops - and strike the Red men so effectually that they [never more] will have it in their power to do much mischief again..." Mentions in the postscript that Henry Jackson "calld several times to tell me the Cause of not writing."
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