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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04909-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 April 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Smith, Isaiah Thomas, William Hull
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Knox sends to Smith by the bearer "Mr. John Hills" a letter asking Smith if he could help Knox find a surveyor who could help him "ascertain [the] practicability" of building a canal that would "open an inland navigation from Connecticut River to Boston." Hills is also sent to survey that possibility as well. Knox acknowledges that the idea might be "entirely utopian" but it is worth exploring more, for it would offer "immense public advantages." Marked as a copy in the docket.
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