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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.00120 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0008] January-April 1774 |
Title | James Rivington to Henry Knox concerning books, land and business |
Date | 21 January 1774 |
Author | Rivington, James (1724-1802) |
Recipient | Knox, Henry |
Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
Content Description | Claims that he has no business relationship with Edes & Gill, and that he sent them none of the Keysey pills he sent to Knox. He leaves it to Knox "to take the proper methods of rendering them saleable." Orders books. States that he has placed an ad in his newspaper for Knox, and asks if he can help him in any other way. Asks if Knox sells fiddles and tells Knox to inform him when he needs additional pills. In regard to the Susquehanna Claim, Rivington indicates that he has sent information about the "Pennsylvania Examination into the Claim of Connecticut on the Subject of their Dispute" because it might be of interest to Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson or Knox's other friends. This land dispute was not completely resolved until 1798 (see GLC03304). Rivington earlier arranged for Knox to advertise some medicine Rivington wanted to sell (see GLC02437.00062). Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer. |
Subjects | Land Transaction Merchants and Trade Commerce Health and Medical Drugs Book Selling Journalism Art, Music, Theater, and Film Boundary or Property Dispute Government and Civics Musical Instrument |
People | Rivington, James (1724-1802) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Place written | New York, New York |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Law; Health & Medicine; Arts & Literature |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
Related documents | Add title for GLC03304 James Rivington proposes business connection to Henry Knox Letter from James Rivington to Henry Knox on matters of trade and business Letter from James Rivington to Henry Knox requesting soap and discussing other matters |
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