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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Ogden

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03687 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter Date: 29 October 1787 Pagination: 2 p. ; 32.5 x 20.1 cm. Order a Copy

Informs Ogden about a business plan he is working on with Gouverneur Morris and a firm and Britain (see GLC02437.03686 for further information). Writes, "I have now written to Mr Morris informing him of the [propositions] of the company in England and of the necessity of comg to some immediate decision on the subject. I have so good an opinion of the prospect that I would pledge myself for my proportion of the funds although I may be [compelled] to make some considerable sacrifices of property to obtain it."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816

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