Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Winthrop Sargent

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GLC#
GLC02437.05944-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
13 October 1793
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
to Winthrop Sargent
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Later copy. References Sargent's letter of 28 September. Believes Congress will meet in Philadelphia as the yellow fever appears to have dissipated. Believes a symbolic gesture that things are back to normal is necessary "or all the American commerce will be injured in foreign countries." Encloses a letter from Fort Washington in Ohio (not included). Says the army marched from the Ohio River on 7 October with 3,000 volunteers and is expecting more. Written from Falls of Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, present day Philadelphia.

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