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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04915-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 11 April 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- Memorandum
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 5 p. : docket ; Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Memorandum of a meeting of Vice President John Adams, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Knox's resulting discussion with Lieutenant Colonel [George] Beckwith about Lord Dorchester in Canada and Indian relations, as well as Great Britain's interests in North America. The opening statement of the document reads, " Memorandum of a conversation which passed between the subscriber and Lt. Colonel Beckwith who seems charged with some sort of an informal political commission by Lord Dorchester."
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