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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03914-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 June 1788
- Author/Creator
- Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Promises Knox one thousand dollars in addition to the two thousand already given. Discusses the safety of sending the money by stage. Congratulates Knox on New Hampshire's ratification of the Constitution, noting "is it possible the an[cient] Dominion [Virginia] can reject it. if they do who can think of a Curse that is equal to their Crime- [William] Grayson and [James] Monroe how- unaccountable their conduct are you not convinced their is a Hell - is any other punishment but [illegible] unquenchable fire equal to the crime of destroying the [fairest] hopes of a world - Adam & Eve [did] nothing when the Fell. Grayson & Monroe have a claim to the first place in the regions of Perdition. But it can not be[.] Virginia must and will." Instructs Knox to send an enclosure to Major Platt, who will obtain the three thousand dollars for Knox.
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