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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.10296
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0122] April-June 1794 
Title Henry Knox to Sebastian Bauman on his possible engineering career
Date 7 April 1794
Author Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Recipient Bauman, Sebastian  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Discusses Bauman's wish to be an engineer. Does not think this is a good career for him since the work would only be for "three or at most four months employ ... " and that he should not "relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty." Watermarked "J Watt & C Patten Copying/Sold by J Woodmason/London." Letterpress copy.
Subjects Office Seeker  Military History  
People Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Bauman, Sebastian (1739-1803)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme Science, Technology, Invention
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Additional Information Bauman was a major in the 2d Regiment of the New York Artillery and an original member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859