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to Henry Knox
14 June 1774
Parker, Robert, fl. 1774
Asks Knox to give his papers to the man who delivered this letter.
GLC02437.00153
15 June 1774
Oliver, Andrew, 1731-1799
Asks about a list of books he requested from Knox. Knox has indicated that some of the books are scarce but said nothing of the others. He wonders if Knox lost the list, since he made the request a year ago. Oliver wrote a similar letter on 7...
GLC02437.00154
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Rivington provides a list of books he has sent to Knox to sell. Mentions other books he was printing. Asks for a list of subscribers Knox has procured, possibly for Rivington's New-York Gazetteer or an edition of Cook's Voyage Rivington was...
GLC02437.00155
20 June 1774
Rivington, James, 1724-1802
Suggests collecting payment from Knox's subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, since they have had it a year. Requests a list of subscribers to Cook's Voyage, which Rivington was printing. Asks Knox to forward to New York any news Boston...
GLC02437.00156
26 June 1774
Requests that Knox buy and send him soap. Also asks Knox to write him a letter describing the state of things in Boston; at the time, the British had just passed the Intolerable Acts, including the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor on 1...
GLC02437.00157
Indicates that Dr. Morewood, who has been appointed by Dr. Norton to distribute Maredants Drops, seeks an agent for distribution in Boston. Rivington has recommended Knox. Also asks him to collect money from subscribers to his newspaper, Rivington...
GLC02437.00159
to Aaron Hobart
December 27, 1821
Davis, William, Jr., 1783-1824
Explains a particular situation in which "the collector [William Whitman] refuses to pay" some monies related to a rum shipment Davis made to Russia and asks Hobart to assist him in recovering the money.
GLC06313.04.124
4 July 1774
Knox, Hugh, 1727-1790
Asks Henry to help him acquire subscribers for his new publication, which will be printed in New York shortly, possibly referring to "Moral and religious miscellany; or, Sixty-one aphoretical essays, on some of the most important Christian doctrines...
GLC02437.00161
10 July 1774
Ruggles, John, 1742-?
Captain Ruggles orders magazines.
GLC02437.00162
13 July 1774
Fletcher, Thomas, fl. 1774
Tells Knox that he referred a friend, Hugh Knox, to him for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions for his upcoming publication of religious essays. Although Fletcher feels that the world has enough of such treatises, he thinks it may be of use to...
GLC02437.00163
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