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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05480-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 May 1792
- Author/Creator
- Hull, William, 1753-1825
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Newton, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 18.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Discusses their recent correspondence, and mentions that he has recently declined a military appointment. Recounts conversations he and Knox have had about the possibility of his appointment, as well as about the appointment of General [John] Brooks and Brooks's decision not to accept. Also discusses family reasons for declining, particularly the illness of his father-in-law.
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