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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07380-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 November 1800
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to James Barron
- Place Written
- Montpelier, Maine
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 25.6 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox's son has been under the command of Captain Barron as a lieutenant. Knox informs Barron that despite a recommendation from John Adams, "the Senate had declined to approve the nomination of the President of the United States of him as a Lieutenant of the Navy." Secretary of the Navy Stoddert suggested Henry Jackson Knox be a midshipman under Barron, but Knox believes his son would see that as a "degradation." Knox asks Barron, then, if his son Henry Jackson Knox could be "an acting Lieutenant with the emoluments only of a midshipman."
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