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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.04060 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0086] October-December 1788 |
Title | Henry Knox to Samuel Ogden |
Date | 23 December 1788 |
Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Recipient | Ogden, Samuel |
Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
Content Description | Assumes that Ogden has returned from Philadelphia, where he and his wife Euphemia wished "his brother" Gouverneur a safe trip to Europe. Reports that his three youngest children have "passed through the measles," and that two of his other children (Henry Jackson and Lucy) have a fever. Asks if Ogden, who operates the Delaware Works, has sent Samuel Shaw's iron to Boston. Asks how he should reply to a letter from James Webber, a London merchant, who wishes to collect a debt owed to him by Ogden. In a post script, comments on the sale of Colonel [Alexander] Hamilton's St. Lawrence lands at a low price to [Alexander] Macomb. Adds that he declined the same offer for his lands. Asks if Gouverneur might be able to sell the land for a better price while he is in England. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War General Children and Family Health and Medical Disease Industry Commerce Debt Finance Land Transaction Waldo Patent Global History and Civics |
People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Ogden, Samuel (1746-1810) Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1757-1804) Ogden, Euphemia Morris (1754-1818) Knox, Henry Jackson (1780-1832) |
Place written | New York, New York |
Theme | Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Industry; Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture; Women in American History |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |