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24 September 1783
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
[Provision order]
Request for one gallon of rum for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Christopher Smith.
GLC02437.02561
18 October 1788
Pottel, Daniel, fl. 1788-1798
[Ducktrap settlers' petition to Knox]
Signed by Pottel and fifteen others. Settlers on Knox's Ducktrap lands (in present-day Maine) apply to him for relief "as children to a Parent." Recently signed a contract requiring them to pay for the land. Complain they did not have time to...
GLC02437.04002
1783/01/19
Adams, John, 1735-1826
To: Charles Dumas
Paris Peace Negotiation: " The Great Points of Independence, The Fisheries, The Mississippi and the Boundaries are settled to our satisfaction."
GLC07975
20 August 1775
Rooke, Henry, fl. 1775-1783
to George Rooke
Henry writes to his brother George in England. Mentions a mutual acquaintance named Whyte. States that he recently made several dispatches from Dresden "and have made a transition from the heavy phlegmatick German to the gay & mercurial Frenchman."...
GLC03881.01
March 1778
Perkins, Jane, fl. 1778
[Receipt for Jane Perkins]
Receipt for Jane Perkins from the town of Newburyport, for "Boarding & Nursing John Kinney a soldier in the Army of the United States." Kinney died while in her care. Perkins signs with her mark, stating she has received payment.
GLC01450.460.08
22 June 1788
Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
to Henry Knox
Informs Knox that the final note is in Nourse or Hillegas's office (Jackson sold $10,000 worth of Knox's notes without his permission and attempted to retrieve them at Knox's request). Expresses hope that New Hampshire will adopt the Constitution...
GLC02437.03909
23 August 1789
Has received the news that Knox's son has died. Sends his condolences to Knox and his wife and discusses the difficulty of losing a child. Has enclosed a letter for the President from Mr. Thomas Edwards, the former Judge Advocate, who is very poor...
GLC02437.04333
16 August 1787
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Henry Jackson [incomplete]
Knox writes that he and Lucy have lost their youngest daughter. Lucy's health is hurt by her grief but she is now better. Says he has been informed that Jackson has ignored Knox's warning and has not attended to his accounting with the "rigidness"...
GLC02437.03635
17 November 1793
Izard, Ralph, 1742-1804
Says he arrived in New York on 15 November and received Knox's letter of 8 November. Is glad that health has been restored to Philadelphia after the yellow fever outbreak. Says that since Washington has settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania for the...
GLC02437.05978
18 February 1788
Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789
[Thomas] Hutchins, Surveyor General, presents his respects to Henry Knox via the bearer of this note, Mr. [Israel] Ludlow, another surveyor in the Geographers Department. Hutchins can not be there in person because he is "confined by a touch of the...
GLC02437.03803
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