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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to John Adams

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00590 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Morristown, New Jersey Type: Letter Date: 10 May 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.9 cm Order a Copy

Later copy. Knox writes to Adams, the Massachusetts representative to Continental Congress. Mentions obtaining cannon cast from the furnace at Salisbury, Massachusetts. Discusses a failed attempt by Colonel Stewart, aide-de-camp to General [Horatio] Gates, to obtain cannon for Ticonderoga, New York. Notes that Congress disapproved of the cannon price, thus Ticonderoga remains without the cannon. Writes, "I sincerely wish that the spirit of enterprise may animate our army; but you well know, my Dear Sir, during the winter past and the most part of the spring, we have had no army to be animated. The time may shortly arrive when I hope we shall receive your approbation in this way." Argues for the establishment of United States currency. Mentions the Bank of England and discusses the worth of paper money compared to specie.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806

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