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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02437.04060
From Archive Folder	The Henry Knox Papers [0086] October-December 1788
Title	Henry Knox to Samuel Ogden
Date	23 December 1788
Author	Knox, Henry (1750-1806)
Recipient	Ogden, Samuel
Document Type	Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description	Assumes that Ogden has returned from Philadelphia, where he and his wife Euphemia wished "his brother" Gouverneur a safe trip to Europe. Reports that his three youngest children have "passed through the measles," and that two of his other children (Henry Jackson and Lucy) have a fever. Asks if Ogden, who operates the Delaware Works, has sent Samuel Shaw's iron to Boston. Asks how he should reply to a letter from James Webber, a London merchant, who wishes to collect a debt owed to him by Ogden. In a post script, comments on the sale of Colonel [Alexander] Hamilton's St. Lawrence lands at a low price to [Alexander] Macomb. Adds that he declined the same offer for his lands. Asks if Gouverneur might be able to sell the land for a better price while he is in England.
Subjects	Revolutionary War General Children and Family Health and Medical Disease Industry Commerce Debt Finance Land Transaction Waldo Patent Global History and Civics
People	Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Ogden, Samuel (1746-1810) Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1757-1804) Ogden, Euphemia Morris (1754-1818) Knox, Henry Jackson (1780-1832)
Place written	New York, New York
Theme	Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Industry; Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture; Women in American History
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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