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Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03729 Author/Creator: Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 December 1787 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 19.4 cm Order a Copy

Forwards letters regarding the Ohio Company accounts. Writes that he has heard General Armstrong resigned from his position as a judge of the Federal Territories. Asks that if this is true, Knox put in a good word for "my friend Mr [Manasseh] Cutler to your Friends in Congress," to appoint Cutler a judge.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820
Armstrong, fl. 1787

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