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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.07205
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0138] September-December 1798 
Title Henry Knox to Moses Michael Hays on financial matters
Date 9 December 1798
Author Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Recipient Hays, Michael Hays  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description Knox lists sums for which he is accountable to "Michael Moses Hays." Knox notes, "Mr. Hay is secured for an endorsement by my mills, locks and canals on the St. George River which are worth at least 30000 Dollars." Knox ends with the passage that "this memorandum is therefore made, in case of death, that my heirs may not suffer in the cases of the aforementioned notes and payments." In this document, Knox reverses Hays's first two names from Moses Michael to Michael Moses.
Subjects Finance  Mill  Canals  Estate  Debt  Judiciary  
Theme Children & Family; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859