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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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