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to General [Stevens]

Letter is not signed but appears to be in Knox's handwriting. Knox explains the financial difficulties he is having. Describes his limestone business and boasts over its quality. Requests Steven's takes Knox's limestone under his protection and...

GLC02437.07637

to Nathaniel Kidder

Noted as a copy. Instructions given to Kidder regarding the sale of Brigadiers Island (present day Sears Island, Maine) to [Rowland] Center.

GLC02437.07760

to Mr. Kerby

Letter is not signed but appears to be in Knox's handwriting. Discusses their mutual friend Mrs. [Sarah Lyons] Beaumez (Knox's sister-in-law) and the loss of her husband. Mentions Beaumez's sons (Thomas and Francis Flucker) and how he hopes they...

GLC02437.07761

to Henry Knox

Updates Knox on the advertisement he listed for Knox's personal property on the newly purchased Brigadiers Island (present day Sears Island, Maine). Informs Knox he tried negotiating with the new owners (Messrs [Rowland] Center and Jenkins) as...

GLC02437.07768

to Henry Knox

Says the "post" left earlier than expected and he was not able to mail the letters last week. Notes he enclosed (not included) an account of the sale from the auction. Also mentions William Staples applied to him about paying Knox's current years'...

GLC02437.07771

to Henry Knox

Written from "St. Georges," likely in or near present-day Thomaston, Maine. Writes to ask for an appointment to be keeper of the new lighthouse to be built on Franklin Island. Explains that he and his son are in financial trouble, and if he obtains...

GLC02437.08037

to Henry Knox

Asks for his help in obtaining an extract of a letter. Dated added later in pencil.

Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

GLC02437.08156

to Rufus King

Discusses the line of inheritance for the Waldo patent, beginning with Brigadier General Samuel Waldo and passing down to his wife, Lucy Flucker Knox. Also provides news about friends and acquaintances, such as the fact that General [Rufus] Putnam...

GLC02437.09127

to Henry Knox

Discussing various leases of small parts of the Waldo Patent, parts of which he oversees for Knox. Wonders why Knox allows Captain Grant to occupy so much of the marshland.

GLC02437.09280

to Rufus King

Appears to discuss trying to find a vacancy or employment for King. Month is not listed. Date was taken from the docket.

GLC02437.09823

to Henry Knox

Writes that she misses him and is quite impatient for him to come home. Discusses their children and mutual friends. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.09933

to Rufus King

Discusses hiring an agent for the building of the frigate in New York and the fact that he is looking for "a character of approved accuracy, and integrity, acquainted with the modes of obtaining labor and materials which will be required in the most...

GLC02437.10302

to Henry Knox

Laments Henry's absence, noting he has been gone for three months exactly. Relates that their daughter, Lucy, is well and beautiful despite "five pitts of the small pox in her face." Comments on Henry's loss, possibly of clothes, noting that she...

GLC02437.10452

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05074

Account document [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05075

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05076

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05077

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05078

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05079

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05080

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05081

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05082

Account document [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05083

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05084

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05085

Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05086

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05087

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05088

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05089

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05090

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05091

Manuscript [in Dutch]

Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.05092

Manuscript [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05093

Account document [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05094

Account document [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05095

Account of Leisler's Rebellion [in Dutch]

English translation available in the collateral file.

GLC03107.05096

Manuscript [in Dutch]

Docketed on p.8.

GLC03107.05097

to Henry Jackson

Discusses General [Rufus] Putnam as suitable candidate for handling their "eastern matters." Also suggests Colonel Maxwell and asks what Jackson thinks of him. Discusses a map that Captain Stone was to deliver to Jackson, possibly concerning Waldo...

GLC02437.03474

to Henry Knox

Reports to Knox concerning the restructuring of the New Hampshire line. Discusses stores and cannons and other general military business.

GLC02437.02800

to Henry Jackson

Writes that Jackson must be anxious and surprised that he has not yet heard from Knox "on the subject of clothing & rations. The fact is that I have been unable to give you any satisfaction on these points." Writes, "Congress came to the...

GLC02437.03362

to [William] Jackson

Note stating that Knox is returning signed diplomas for the Rhode Island Society (presumably the Rhode Island branch of the Society of the Cincinnati) to Jackson. Signed in text by Knox, who writes in the third person.

GLC02437.03595

to Henry Jackson [incomplete]

Knox writes that he and Lucy have lost their youngest daughter. Lucy's health is hurt by her grief but she is now better. Says he has been informed that Jackson has ignored Knox's warning and has not attended to his accounting with the "rigidness"...

GLC02437.03635

to Henry Jackson

Forwards a bill of exchange drawn by Capt. Thomas Randall for $40. Noted as an extract.

GLC02437.03669

to Henry Jackson

Discusses financial business involving Judge Wendell. Also mentions selling Colonel Platt a bill at 30 days for $625. Extensive docket, with accounting, in Knox's hand.

GLC02437.03709

to Henry Jackson

Reports that he seems to be recovering from a recent illness. Transmits a letter to Mrs. McNeill related to financial matters. Asks Jackson to "wait on Mrs. [Mary] McNeill and take duplicate receipts for the said certificate." Asks Jackson to write...

GLC02437.03759

to Henry Jackson

Knox writes a scathing castigation in response to Jackson's letter of 27 April, in which Jackson informed Knox he could appropriate 10,000 of Knox's dollars [in certificates] "without the least risque" (refer to GLC02437.03862). Knox writes, "I...

GLC02437.03866

to Henry Jackson

Refers to a letter in which he castigated Jackson for suggesting he might appropriate a sum of Knox's dollars [in certificates] to invest (refer to GLC02437.03866). Writes, "In my letter to you I state how ruinous such a measure would be to me owing...

GLC02437.03875

to Henry Jackson

Signed "H.K." Expresses extreme disappointment that Jackson has not responded to his previous letters. Jackson had suggested he should appropriate 10,000 of Knox's dollars [in certificates] to invest. Knox was alarmed by the suggestion, relating...

GLC02437.03876

to Henry Jackson

Knox discusses a recent situation in which Jackson suggested he appropriate 10,000 of Knox's dollars [in certificates] for investment. Writes, "As all my eastern arrangements, and others also depend on the Single circumstance of my certificates...

GLC02437.03877

to Henry Jackson

Discusses a delicate situation in which Henry Jackson invested 10,000 dollars worth of Knox's notes without his permission. Writes, "Having previously built on my notes in my arrangements, as I before informed you it would be unnecessary and...

GLC02437.03889