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[Account]

Lists transactions between the United States and Samuel Hodgdon by date from 4 August to 4 October 1791. Noted as a copy in the docket.

GLC02437.10594

[Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and ammunition.

GLC02437.10712

[Contract]

Indenture regarding land between Henry Knox and Samuel Ogden both of whom have signed. Also cites Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris as participants in the overall transaction. Signed by W. Jackson and John Laurance as witnesses. Date previously...

GLC02437.10723

to William G. Maitland

Reports to her son on the spring church meeting going on. Says there have been no conversions yet. Discusses the different preachers who have spoken to the congregation. Mentions the marriage of a family friend and comments, "...but so it is when...

GLC03523.10.189

to Joseph M. Maitland

A friend of Joseph's writes to him from Concord Seminary. Letter is faded and hard to read. Discusses details of a recent wedding she attended. Mentions her belief the war will soon end. Asks to be included in Joseph's wedding party when he marries...

GLC03523.10.190

to Em

Letter addressed "Dear Em." Details an overnight train trip from Cincinnati to Holden, Missouri. Reports on all the people she has seen and places she has been. Describes going to church and seeing "...four or five riding skirts hanging on the side...

GLC03523.10.192

to My Dear Cousin

Letter addressed "My Dear Cousin." Refers to the death of Amanda and how distraught "Poor Old Aunt Phebe" must be. Says they are cutting wheat "...with one of those large binding machines." Reports that "...Poor blind Mrs. Praddy's daughter...drowned...

GLC03523.10.193

to Cousin Joe and Bell

Letter addressed "Dear Cousin Joe and Bell." Cousin Mary writes from her new home in Nebraska. Comments how different the country looks "...so few trees and such filthy little houses..." Remarks they must travel three miles to purchase wood. Believes...

GLC03523.10.194

to Very Dear Cousin

Letter addressed "Very Dear Cousin." Inquires about the state of their livestock. Discusses the difficulty of getting to church. Asks about the neighbors. Mentions she and Rachel had to turn down an appeal to donate funds for the purchase of a black...

GLC03523.10.195

to My Dear Cousin

Letter addressed "My Dear Cousin." Complains about the infrequency of her letters. Expresses sorrow for her poor health and scolds her not "...to undertake to get up dinners at your time of life...let the younger ones get up the dinners...you have...

GLC03523.10.196

to Friend Maitland

Letter addressed "Friend Maitland." States he has investigated "...to learn the feeling of the republican voters of Goshen...on the question of the Clerkship..." Reports "...I think your chances are very good here now I feel confident of your success...

GLC03523.10.197

to J. M. Maitland and family

Reports his nephew was also a candidate for clerk of the county. Expresses dismay at the outcome of the election; "...the only drinking gambling whoring man got it..." Mentions the poor health of one of the horses, "...I think at the next moon she...

GLC03523.10.198

to Joseph M. Maitland

Mentions the recent Republican defeat; "Our democratic friends here have been jollifying noisily enough, yet not offensively, and rebel sentiment has not shown itself as far as I have seen or heard." Refers to the election of Confederate General John...

GLC03523.10.199

to Joseph M. Maitland

Letter is addressed "Dear Cousin." Says he has bought an additional twenty acres of land for pasture. Plans to plant thirty-eight acres of corn. Comments "I think all over the land there is deadness in the church owing to the bitter feeling between...

GLC03523.10.200

to Joseph M. Maitland [incomplete]

Letter addressed "Dear friend Joe." Reports the winter has been severe with much snow. Discusses duck and rabbit hunting. Comments businesses are failing and real estate values continue to fall. Mentions crop yields will be lower this year due to...

GLC03523.10.201

to Joseph M. Maitland

Letter addressed "Dear Brother." Informs of his travels as a minister and his attempts at "conversions." Writes in great detail about his horses and their health. Reports his family has the whooping cough. Letter has repeated bleeding.

GLC03523.10.202

Memorandum of certain transactions

Lists several transactions between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and Benjamin Lincoln.

GLC02437.07883

to Samuel E. Dutton

Unsigned, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Writes that he has sold land near Bangor, Maine to Benjamin Bussey, and is now referring Bussey to Dutton for information about those lands.

GLC02437.07890

[Notes of General Knox]

Contains two sections. The top portion, written in Knox's hand and dated 7 November 1804, contains a list and calculations of Knox's financial accounts. The bottom portion, dated 11 April 1804, was apparently written by the firm of Shaw, Barker &...

GLC02437.07892

[Agreement with John L. Gillman]

Partially printed. Agreement indicating Gillman's purchase of a certain tract of land in Maine, from Henry Knox. Signed by Knox (signature seems to be crossed out), and signed by John Gleason as a witness.

GLC02437.07898

[Deed for land given to Henry Jackson Knox] [incomplete]

Partially printed. Deed for land, including a lime and marble manufacturing plant, given to Henry Jackson Knox by his parents (it is unclear if Jackson Knox was simply given the land or if he purchased it). Signed by Henry and Lucy Knox, and by...

GLC02437.07901

to Henry Knox

Asks Knox if he will help his friend Stephen Chase, a law student, who is publishing an edition of "Sullivan's Lectures on the Feudal Law." Wait wonders if he could help Chase in "procuring a few great names," such as President [John] Adams and...

GLC02437.07905

[Agreement of payment]

Unsigned, and written in the third person, but in Knox's hand. Agrees to provide certain land to the "ten proprietors," at a particular price. Directed to Mr. Henry Fields of Merrimack.

GLC02437.07914

to Lucy Knox

Apologizes for not writing sooner, but declares that he knew his sister had written to her about their voyage, and he did not have anything to add. Mentions his and his wife, Eliza's, pleasure to be back at home. Discusses the oncoming spring...

GLC02437.07924

[Pertains to peach and cherry trees]

Describes in detail the planting of peach and cherry trees, possibly on his estate.

GLC02437.07932