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Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 [Request for Knox to attend John Hancock's funeral]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05941 Author/Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 10 October 1793 Pagination: 1 p. : address Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Note says the lieutenant governor requests Knox's attendance at the funeral of the late Governor John Hancock. The funeral will proceed from Hancock's manor house next Monday at 2 p.m.

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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