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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.05799 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0117] January-March 1793 |
Title | William Knox to Henry Knox regarding house viewings for Henry and news of William Green |
Date | 29 January 1793 |
Author | Knox, William (1756-1795) |
Recipient | Knox, Henry |
Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
Content Description | Initialed by William Knox. Reports that Mr. Edgar will not leave his house on Wall Street. Says Macombs large house is not yet sold. Says that Mrs. Fleming wants to rent her house out for 1,200 pounds for three years. Edgar informed him that [Philip] Livingston offered her 1,000 pounds, but that it was refused. Will wait as "the extraordinary advance in rent will probably induce some to part with theirs who did not intend it." Provides the full story on Mr. Green, which he quickly referenced in GLC02437.05798. Green altered a document on a shipment of goods sent on a ship he owned. Reports that Bills of Exchange are at 2 1/2 percent under par. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War General Landlord and Tenant Finance Women of the Founding Era Women's History Mortgage Morality and Ethics Forgery and Fraud Merchants and Trade Commerce Economics Finance Banking |
People | Knox, William (1756-1795) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Place written | New York, New York |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Women in American History; Naval & Maritime; Banking & Economics |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
Related documents | Letter from William Knox to Henry Knox regarding house viewings for Henry |