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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Minutes of a conversation with Tench Coxe]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05561 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph document signed Date: 28 July 1792 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Reports on a conversation with Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, regarding Knox's traveling expenses for 1784-1788. Describes what Coxe feels he can be reimbursed for, according to the "strict resolves of congress."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824

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