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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.04063
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0086] October-December 1788 
Title Henry Knox to Alexander Hamilton about buying land around St. Lawrence
Date 28 December 1788
Author Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Recipient Hamilton, Alexander  
Document Type Correspondence; Land transaction document; Business and financial document
Content Description Asks for Hamilton's help if he is traveling to Albany. Is a purchaser, with Hamilton and others, of lands around the St. Lawrence River, the patents for which lands have been taken out of the Land Office in the name of Alexander Macomb. Aside from lands purchased by the state, certain portions of the land picked by a group led by General [Philip] Schuyler were to be paid for by Knox and several others. Would like Hamilton to determine how much Knox needs to pay and to whom he should direct the payment.
Subjects Economics  Land Transaction  Revolutionary War General  Contract  Finance  Government and Civics  
People Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1757-1804)  Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Macomb, Alexander (1748-1831)  Schuyler, Philip John (1733-1804)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859