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De Jean, fl. 1786 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03410 Author/Creator: De Jean, fl. 1786 Place Written: Middletown, Connecticut Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 January 1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 18.3 cm Order a Copy

Thanks him for his letter. Writes, "By the contents of Mr. Macomb's, friendly letter, I am convinced, how wrong and presumptuous I was, in my former letter to you, to desire you to write to so many gentlemen, and to take so much trouble for a man entire [a] stranger to you." Begs his forgiveness and his "good patronage and protection." See GLC02437.03396 for a related document.

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