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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Receipt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08571 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript document Date: 27 March 1785 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Document opens with "Received of Henry Knox one Consolodated note of this Commonwealth...for the sum of three hundred and eighty eight pounds, 14/6." Docket says this is a Henry Jackson's receipt "for notes put in to the Bank."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

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