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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05510-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 June 1792
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to David Cobb, Henry Jackson, John Coffin Jones and Benjamin Hichborn
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 6 p. : docket ; Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Discusses a proposed plan for a canal that connects the Connecticut River to Boston. Informs the other men that he has already engaged the services of a mutual acquaintance, Captain John Hills, to act as surveyor and supervisor for the business. Writes, "If the canal can be executed for a moderate capital from Worcester or Rutland to Boston the value of the object will be great indeed whether it be altered with reference to proffit to the proprietors..."
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