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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to John Lawrance

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10293 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 24, 1794 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 32.6 cm, Width: 24.7 cm Order a Copy

Writes that "[i]t is agreeable to custom, and proper in itself, that I should announce to you that I shall deliver up your house in Town which I now occupy, To your order at the expiration of the year, for which I hired it, to wit on the 11th of June next. But if you should obtain a tenant to go into it, on the 10th of May, I think it probable that I might be able to forelinquish on that day." Watermarked "J Watt & C Patent Copying/Sold By J Woodmason/London." Letterpress copy.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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