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Date Created
Collection Item
Autograph note

[Request]

1770

Asks the recipient to send several items, including a history of England, and a copy of Paradise Lost. Date previously inferred, written on pencil.

GLC02437.08256
Collection Item
Document signed

[Certificate]

21 March 1770

May, Aaron, fl. 1770

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that a cart of hay has been weighed.

GLC02437.08253
Collection Item
Document signed

[Certificate]

9 August 1770

Adams, Edward, fl. 1765-1772

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that a cart of hay has been weighed.

GLC02437.08252
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry Knox

14 October 1770

Howland, Joseph, 1749-1836

Describes traveling to Norwich, Connecticut. Comments on the town, its trade, and dances (including the attending ladies). Howland was a friend of Knox's from Boston. He was a ship owner and became a prominent citizen in Norwich.

GLC02437.00001
Collection Item
Manuscript document

[Plan]

18 October 1770

Leach, John, fl. 1770

A diagram of a plan for land, with dimensions and includes a compass with the cardinal directions.

GLC02437.08259
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry Knox

10 December 1770

Troutbeck, John, fl. 1755-1784

Light-heartedly comments on the absence of correspondence from his friend Knox. Discusses plans to travel to India. Reports that he has recently been appointed the first Surgeon of the Essex Easte Indea, commanded by Captain Read, but has not yet...

GLC02437.00002
GLC02437.00003
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry Knox

18 December 1770

Troutbeck, John, fl. 1755-1784

Reports to his friend that he has passed his medical examinations. Briefly comments on his lectures and exams. Now that he is a surgeon, Troutbeck can take the position he was offered on a ship to Bombay, India (see GLC02437.00002). He sails with...

GLC02437.00003
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry Knox

26 December 1770

Howland, Joseph, 1749-1836

Thanks Knox for paper and wax, which will be used to continue their correspondence. Describes attending a wedding and reports a courtship, but instead of offering details he quotes the poet Watts, possibly Isaac Watts. Howland was a friend of Knox...

GLC02437.00004
Collection Item
Manuscript document

[Receipts]

18 October 1770

Stanton, John, fl. 1770

Lists receipts for money.

GLC02437.08268
Collection Item
Autograph letter

to Lucy Knox [incomplete]

circa 1774-1788

Possibly by Hannah Flucker Urquhart to her sister, Lucy Knox. Discusses the death of her husband (possibly James Urquhart) writing, "Know your superior happiness in having a Dear and good husband to sympathize with you, you have still a comforter...

GLC02437.09453

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