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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.04541
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0094] January-March 1790 
Title Daniel Lyman to Henry Knox regarding Lyman's application for office
Date 12 March 1790
Author Lyman, Daniel (1756-1830)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Replies to Knox's letter from February. Relates that he forwarded letters from "some of our best Characters," (presumably including a letter from Knox), to President George Washington. Notes that if he obtains an appointment, "no circumstance can give me greater or more sensible pleasure than the medium through which it will be obtained."
Subjects Revolutionary War General  Letter of Introduction or Recommendation  Office Seeker  Government and Civics  
People Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Lyman, Daniel (1756-1830)  Washington, George (1732-1799)  
Place written Newport, Rhode Island
Theme Creating a New Government; Government & Politics; The Presidency
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Additional Information Lyman was a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. After the war, he served as surveyor for the port of Newport, president of the state chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati, and later became a partner in the Lyman Cotton Manufacturing Company.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859