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Johonnot, Samuel Cooper, 1768-1806 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04014 Author/Creator: Johonnot, Samuel Cooper, 1768-1806 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 21 October 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 23.6 cm, Width: 17.4 cm Order a Copy

Asks Knox to examine a memorandum and offer his observations. Awaits Knox's instructions "in filling up the Interval of Time now before me..."

Johonnot, Samuel Cooper, 1768-1806
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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