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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Notes]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08214 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: October 1786 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Docketed as "some minutes respecting the terms of the proposed loan to the U.S - for [illegible] the troops to be raised by virtues of the resolve of Congress of the 20th October 1786." The loan is for $500,000. (The troops were being raised to quell Shays's Rebellion.)

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