Henry Knox papers
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; United States; Shipbuilding; Claims; United States. War Dept.; Veterans; History
Description: ALS (1789 August 6) to Knox from his wife, Lucy Flucker Knox, concerning the debate in Congress over the location of the seat of the federal government; list (1792 June 4) sent to Noah Smith naming Vermont Revolutionary War pensioners, copy of a cover letter for a commission (1792 June 28), and an offer (1794 July 5) of a shipbuilding contract, all written by Knox as U.S. secretary of war; ALS (1796 February 21) to Winthrop Sargent pertaining chiefly to personal matters, and an account book (1796-1797).
Notes: Vermont pensioners list was previously cataloged separately.

Open to research.

Photographic reproduction, in part. [S.l.].

Purchase, 1922-1946.

Reproduced with permission, Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker, 1935.

U.S. secretary of war and army officer.