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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05054-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 July 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to John Hills
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 31.6 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by Knox as Secretary of War to Captain Hills who was surveying a potential route for a canal from the Connecticut River to Boston. References Hills's letter of 29 June. Tells him if he needs money to go to Joseph Peirce near "the Town house Boston." Says he will get 100 dollars when he shows Peirce this letter. Says he wrote to Hills on 2 July. Bottom of letter says that Hills was surveying near the Charles River and that this letter was put in the care of General Hull at Newton, Massachusetts.
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