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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Jeremiah Wadsworth

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03395 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript letter Date: 30 December 1786 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 19.9 cm Order a Copy

Discusses how best to handle Shays and his supporters. Writes, "I will venture to predict that the insurgents must find security in Arms or they must fly the Country I found this opinion on the moral impossibility, of the existence of government with the spirit manifested by the insurgents - One or the other must give place - The insurgents are not the most numerous and therefore they will not have recourse to that expedients. - But they may think they shall advance themselves by arms, and having thrown down the gauntlet the government will take it up." Encourages Wadsworth to come visit, and to bring Miss Wadsworth. Also mentions that he gave the Board of Treasury proposals Wadsworth gave him about coining copper (without disclosing Wadsworth's name). Marked as a copy.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
Shays, Daniel, 1747-1825

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