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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.03182
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0076] September-December 1785 
Title The company Broome & Platt to Henry Knox regarding a debt of terms of repayment
Date 6 September 1785
Author Broome & Platt (fl. 1785)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description The firm of Broome & Platt certifies that it is in debt to Messrs. Webber Addington & Birhnall of London for approximately 600 pounds. Document arranges terms of repayment, including paying the equivalent amount in dry goods within a two-week period to General Knox, the ultimate beneficiary. (According to GLC02437.03181, Broome & Platt had made a payment to James Webber, who was apparently handling business for Henry Knox and his brother, William, during William's illness, but the note with which they paid was drawn on a firm that had gone bankrupt.)
Subjects Global History and Civics  Debt  Finance  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Revolutionary War General  
People Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Broome, Samuel (ca. 1734-1810)  Platt, Jeremiah (fl. 1785)  
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Children & Family; Banking & Economics; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Additional Information The "Webber" of the firm Webber Addington & Birhnall of London is likely frequent Knox correspondent James Webber, who helped care for William Knox in London.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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