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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02437.03357
From Archive Folder	The Henry Knox Papers [0078] September-December 1786
Title	Henry Knox to Robert Morris about his loan to Congress
Date	30 November 1786
Author	Knox, Henry (1750-1806)
Document Type	Correspondence; Military document; Government document; Business and financial document
Content Description	Writes that the Board of Treasury will write to Morris by this post regarding the proposed contracts. Intimates that not enough members of Congress are seated yet, but believes that by the time Morris and Wadsworth, as well as the Board of Treasury, sign the contract, Congress will be in session and will pass the contract easily. Discusses the merits of the measure but laments the time it will take to pass the measure through Congress. See GLC02437.03354 for a related document. Marked "private."
Subjects	Revolutionary War General Finance Continental Congress Congress Government and Civics Contract Military History
People	Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Morris, Robert (1734-1806)
Place written	New York, New York
Theme	Government & Politics; Banking & Economics; Creating a New Government
Sub-collection	The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Related documents	Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth about his loan to Congress
Transcript	Show/hide Download PDF [draft] New York Novr 30 1786 - (private) My dear Sir Agreably to my intimation [struck: of] [inserted: on] the 26 [struck: th] instant the board of treasury will write to you by this post, on the subject of the proposed contracts - I hope the manner will be perfectly satisfactory As yet there is no Congress, nor is it certain when there will be a sufficient number of members assembled, to make one of seven states, perhaps not much before the 1st of January. After the contracts are made, and the papers are signed by the board of treasury, yourself & Colonel Wadsworth, the ratification thereof by Congress will I am persuaded be obtaind without difficulty. I have written to Colonel Wadsworth on the subject of his journey to Philadelphia, as soon as the board shall have received your answers, and can transmit it to him. I cannot easily express my anxiety of mind on this delay - nothing on my part has been left unanswered, but the length of time taken for consideration has been unavoidable in the state of things. But as Congress have not been in session the delay hitherto has not been so important as otherwise it would have been - When the contracts shall be happily arranged, I flatter myself that the vigor of the preparations [2] will in a great degree compensate for the loss of time occasioned by the previous arrangements - You will I am persuaded be of [opinion] [struck: of] with me, that the advertisement of the board of treasury for a partial contract for rations will rather tend to illustrate, than obscure, the honorable point of view in what your conduct in this transaction will be placed - I am my Dear Sir &c. The Honorable Robert Morris Esqr -

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