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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.03863 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0084] April-June 1788 |
Title | Henry Knox to William Price regarding travel arrangements and the land Knox owns |
Date | 2 May 1788 |
Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Recipient | Price, William |
Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
Content Description | Knox writes to Price at West Point. States, "Independent of the public objects I shall wish to converse with you on the subject of objects to the Eastward- I should wish to form some system in that quarter what would promote our mutual interests. I want some person in whom I could fully confide." Proposes that Price make arrangements to travel east with Knox, likely referring to Knox's lands in present-day Maine. Marked "private" on the docket. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War General West Point (US Military Academy) Travel Land Transaction Military History |
People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Price, William (d. 1790) |
Place written | New York, New York |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Additional Information | Price was Deputy Commissary of Military Stores 1784-1787 and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |