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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05953-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 October 1793
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 33 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Mentions their son Henry Jackson Knox is probably already in Boston. Says all are well, except Lucy who was left in Newark with the Ogden's. Says Mr. Breck has hired three rooms in Newark because he has no hope of getting to Philadelphia in the coming months. Reports that she does not believe Congress will sit in Philadelphia, in reference to the yellow fever outbreak. Mentions the deaths of people they know, including the mother and sister of Benjamin Rush and [Major David] Franks. Rush also said that Mr. Blodget and Mr. Clymer were ill. Heard that on average 130 people have died in the last week. References receiving a note from [Philip] Audebert, a clerk in the War Department, stating he saw their "sweet babe." Wants Knox to make a visit to his estates in Maine and to avoid Philadelphia. Does not believe it will be safe to go there until Christmas. Postscript tells Knox to be kind to his son. Place writ added in pencil.
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