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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02437.04983
From Archive Folder	The Henry Knox Papers [0100] May-June 1791
Title	Elbridge Gerry to Henry Knox about a payment for Bank of United States shares
Date	10 June 1791
Author	Gerry, Elbridge (1744-1814)
Recipient	Knox, Henry
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Written by Massachusetts Congressman Gerry to Secretary of War Knox. Says he requested 26 shares in the Bank of the United States from Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cox. Enclosed a $650 bank note "to make the first specie payment." Asks Knox to take care of the payment if something prevents Cox. Says "we are in daily expectation of the Secretary of the Treasury[,] Mr Jefferson &c, but I hear nothing of your intentions to visit Massachusetts." Postscript gives Knox permission to open his letter to Cox if he is absent.
Subjects	Revolutionary War General Banking Bank of the US Government and Civics Coins and Currency Finance Economics President
People	Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Gerry, Elbridge (1744-1814)
Place written	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Theme	Banking & Economics; Government & Politics
Sub-collection	The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Download PDF Cambridge 10th June 1791 Dear Sir I have requested Mr Cox Deputy Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe in my behalf twenty six shares to the Bank of the United States, & have inclosed to him a bank receipt for six hundred & fifty dollars to make the first specie payment, but if any occurrence should prevent his doing it, I must request you to receive of him the receipt which is payable to yourself as well as to him & to me this favour. we are in daily expectation of the Secretary of the Treasury Mr Jefferson &c, but I hear nothing of your intentions to visit Massachusetts - Mrs Gerry & Miss Thompson join in regards to yourself, Mrs Knox & family, & Mr Mrs & Miss [Brech] & General Knox - be assured I am yours sincerely EGerry P.S. If Mr Cox should be absent please to open my letter to him which you may know by my hand writing and take out the bank receipt - [address leaf] The Honble General Knox Secretary at War at Philadelphia [docket] Elbridge Gerry Esqr 10th June 1791 answered the 19th June - no copy)

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