Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.04856

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GLC#
GLC02437.04856-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 15, 1791
Author/Creator
Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 30.4 cm, Width: 19 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

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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