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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.00120
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0008] January-April 1774 
Title James Rivington to Henry Knox concerning books, land and business
Date 21 January 1774
Author Rivington, James (1724-1802)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description Claims that he has no business relationship with Edes & Gill, and that he sent them none of the Keysey pills he sent to Knox. He leaves it to Knox "to take the proper methods of rendering them saleable." Orders books. States that he has placed an ad in his newspaper for Knox, and asks if he can help him in any other way. Asks if Knox sells fiddles and tells Knox to inform him when he needs additional pills. In regard to the Susquehanna Claim, Rivington indicates that he has sent information about the "Pennsylvania Examination into the Claim of Connecticut on the Subject of their Dispute" because it might be of interest to Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson or Knox's other friends. This land dispute was not completely resolved until 1798 (see GLC03304). Rivington earlier arranged for Knox to advertise some medicine Rivington wanted to sell (see GLC02437.00062). Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.
Subjects Land Transaction  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Health and Medical  Drugs  Book Selling  Journalism  Art, Music, Theater, and Film  Boundary or Property Dispute  Government and Civics  Musical Instrument  
People Rivington, James (1724-1802)  Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Law; Health & Medicine; Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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