31 August 1789

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Signed in text by Knox "Genl Knox." Also signed by William Hull. Notes that Knox gave $540.74 to William Hill "on account of supplies furnished the indian commissioners." Half the page contains a list of names and sums of money that may be unrelated.

GLC02437.04344

3 November 1789

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Certificates as payment for Knox's services]

Lists "certificates given me for my services by J. Peirce Esqr, & which I have in possession this day [3] Novr 1789." Includes the number of each certificate, the dollar amount, and the interest paid.

GLC02437.04403

12 December 1789

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for warrants received from Jeremiah Wadsworth]

Confirms the receipt of warrants from Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth. Noted as a copy. Signature is struck.

GLC02437.04436

16 December 1789

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Memorandum regarding the cancellation of warrants]

Memorandum stating that on 16 December "delivered the honourable Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury five warrants issued by the late board of Treasury of the United States on William Imlay Esq, receiver of Continental Taxes for the state of Connecticut and dated the 14th day of April 1788 -" The warrants are being delivered to Hamilton in order to be canceled.

GLC02437.04440

1 April 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Minutes, whereby to give information and opinions to a Committee of the Senate] [incomplete]

Starts with the third point, which is to "prevent intrigues, and depredations of the cunning and lawless [whites] and to carry into effect the decisions of Congress from [time] to [time] relative to the frontiers. Discusses "unauthorized expeditions in to the Indian Country," and the "late sale of Georgia..." Continues to list goals such as preventing the "usurpations" of the public lands, surveying land to sell for the purpose of relieving public debt, and the use of troops to keep order. Point five discusses methods of promoting friendly relations with the Chickasaw & Choctaw Indians…

GLC02437.04572

2 April 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Minutes respecting the North Carolina session taken from Doctor H. Williamson]

Records the minutes of the North Carolina legislative session. Lists amounts for John Armstrong's and General [Nathanael] Greene's office. Provides instructions for ordering and recording land surveys and obtaining patents. Title taken from docket.

GLC02437.04574

27 March 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Receipt

Document opens with "Received of Henry Knox one Consolodated note of this Commonwealth...for the sum of three hundred and eighty eight pounds, 14/6." Docket says this is a Henry Jackson's receipt "for notes put in to the Bank."

GLC02437.08571

January 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Ideas about Lime Business

Henry Knox works out some ideas and estimates about going into the lime business.

GLC02437.08573

11 April 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Receipt to Henry Knox

Docket describes this document as "Genl Henry Jackson's receipt for specie and consolodated Notes." Receipt notes that "three notes...each for the sum of three hundred, one pound and 6d" were "received of Henry Knox."

GLC02437.08575

01 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document

Title: Money order to Mary Pelham

Henry Knox orders Henry Jackson to pay Mary Pelham "eight pounds six shillings and eight pence" and charge it to Knox's account.

GLC02437.08579

01 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: Money order to Jonathan Gilbert

Henry Knox orders Henry Jackson to pay Gilbert "two pounds sixteen shillings" and charge it to Knox's account.

GLC02437.08580

1 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order to pay Colonel Samuel Ward]

Henry Knox notes that Colonel Samuel Ward should be paid £6.12. It is countersigned by Henry Jackson saying "accept to pay." Verso is signed by Samuel Ward noting that he "Recd payment."

GLC02437.08581

1 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order to pay Joseph Peirce]

Payment to Joseph Peirce of £15.12.9. Signed on verso by Jonathan Dorn, who received the payment for Peirce.

GLC02437.08584

1 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order to pay Ephraim Fenno]

Pledges payment of £5.7.10 to Ephraim Fenno.

GLC02437.08585

10 August 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document

Title: [Order to pay George R. Minot]

Payment of 36 shillings to made to George R. Minot, Esq. Sent to Henry Jackson. Minot signed the document on verso.

GLC02437.08588

14 September 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

Lists certificates for what appears to be various land plots, listed by plot number and date. Directed to Henry Jackson and his brother, William Knox.

GLC02437.08597

circa 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Memorandum] [incomplete?]

Lists expenses for various items by date.

GLC02437.08608

January 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Petition related to the estate of Thomas Flucker]

Petition by Henry Knox to the General Court of Massachusetts regarding the estate of Thomas Flucker. Asks for authorization to request that bonds be paid, and other administrative tasks associated with executing the estate.

GLC02437.09102

2 October 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Land agreement]

Document is signed by Henry Knox and various other people. A land agreement between Henry Knox and the inhabitants of Owls Head, Maine. Knox agrees to supply the inhabitants who agree to his terms with warranty deeds. The land is being sold for four shillings an acre or 2/3 of a dollar per acre. The document contains the full terms of the agreement along with details about surveying the land. Document appears to be a duplicate of GLC02437.09200.

GLC02437.09199

14 November 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts]

Petitioning for the right to land they believe they are entitled to under previous laws. Also signed by Isaac Winslow, Isaac Winslow Jr., and Samuel Winslow as heirs involved in this case. Docket on the second page, signed by Samuel Phillips.

GLC02437.10423

10 May 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Report]

Cover letter of Knox's report regarding troops furnished by various states for each year of the Revolutionary War as well as conjectural estimates of militia. On April 23, 1790, Congress instructed Secretary of War Knox to "to lay before the House an account of the troops, (including the militia,) and also of the ordnance stores furnished from time to time by the several States, towards the support of the late war." Congress requested this report as part of the ongoing controversy over Hamilton's proposed assumption of state debts. Knox sent his report to Congress on May 10; it was delivered…

GLC02437.10586

29 May 1787

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Jeremiah] Wadsworth

Knox left Philadelphia for New York because his daughter Lucy was ill, but by the time he arrived, she was feeling better. Hopes to obtain warrants from the Board of Treasury to pay the arrearages of pay and clothing to the Connecticut troops. Relates that the Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia on 25 May with seven states. George Washington will preside over the Convention, and [William] Jackson will serve as secretary. Ten states are now present at the Convention, but Maryland, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island are all absent.

GLC02437.03557

3 October 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Writes, apparently of the recent Shays' Rebellion, "The insurrection here has certainly been of an alarming nature. It must have extensive consequences." Discusses the potential goal of the rebels and possible ways to protect the town of Springfield.

GLC02437.03304

22 October 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Mentions the probability of war with the Indians and advises on the need to make preparations. Encourages the promotion of Major [possibly John] Wyllys, an "excellent officer," to the frontier forces. Discusses the "Philadelphia arrangement," perhaps referring to a loan Wadsworth was working on with Robert Morris in which Congress would borrow money from them against future income from the treasury.

GLC02437.03318

19 November 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Writes of his recent visit to Philadelphia to discuss with Robert Morris a loan that Morris and Wadsworth were planning to make to Congress. Relates the terms he worked out with Morris on Wadsworth's behalf (see GLC02437.03330, in which Wadsworth gives Knox permission to work out the terms of the loan for him with Morris).

GLC02437.03340