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Hancock, John, 1737-1793 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04913 Author/Creator: Hancock, John, 1737-1793 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 April 1791 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 22.1 cm, Width: 18.4 cm Order a Copy

Massachusetts Governor John Hancock informs Knox that he has sent Knox via Caleb Hopkins on the Brig Maria, a box of "the very best Winter Isle Shoales Table Fish, which I have preserved in the best manner, & which I will venture to assert if dress'd agreeably to the mode I practice, & which we conversed upon when together, will prove as good Eating Fish as was ever on any Table whatever."

Hancock, John, 1737-1797
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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