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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Hannah Flucker Urquhart Harwood

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03804 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 February 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.6 cm, Width: 19.9 cm Order a Copy

Knox congratulates Harwood on her nuptials. Comments on his own marriage: "I have read yr letter to Lucy with great pleasure- her memory seems to have led her into [scrape]- She forgot that she married one Henry Knox of Cornhill, Boston- She was a sad tory then and is but a bad republican now..."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Harwood, Hannah Flucker Urquhart, fl. 1774-1796

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