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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05663 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1765-1774 |
| Title | Henry Knox to Henry Jackson with family news and a discussion of the intolerable acts |
| Date | 29 August 1774 |
| Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Recipient | Jackson, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Comments on the "disagreeable" current events. Indicates that General Thomas Gage, then the commander-in-chief and governor of Massachusetts, "must recede," otherwise "carnage & bloodshed seem inevitable - there never was anything like the flame the last 2 Acts has produced...erect a standard and believe in a fortnight there would be ten thousand country people flock to it." Earlier that year, Parliament had passed the intolerable acts--the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the second Quartering Act--in response to the Boston Tea Party and civil unrest in Massachusetts. The two cited by Knox were the Quartering Act (passed 2 June 1774) and either the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act or the Administration of Justice Act (both passed 20 May 1774). Discusses his marriage to Lucy Flucker on 23 June 1774, the ceremony, and Lucy's parents' opposition. Also gives Jackson some news about his family. |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War Revolutionary War General Military History Intolerable Acts Loyalist Women's History Marriage Children and Family Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs |
| People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Jackson, Henry (1747-1809) Gage, Thomas (1721-1787) |
| Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theme | The American Revolution; Foreign Affairs; Women in American History; Children & Family |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |