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Author: Richard Platt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Refers to a matter he and Knox discussed at Club the previous Saturday evening regarding Knox's St. Lawrence lands. Asks if the matter meets Knox's approbation.
Author: Richard Platt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Refers to a matter he and Knox discussed at Club the previous Saturday evening regarding Knox's St. Lawrence lands. Asks if the matter meets Knox's approbation.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Replies to Colonel Platt's letter (GLC02437.04055). Intends to see Platt the following morning, when they will discuss Knox's St. Lawrence lands.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Assumes that Ogden has returned from Philadelphia, where he and his wife Euphemia wished his brother Gouverneur a safe trip to Europe. Reports that his three youngest children have passed through the measles, and that two of his other children (Henry Jackson and Lucy) have a fever. Asks if Ogden, who operates the Delaware Works, has sent Samuel Shaw's iron to Boston. Asks how he should reply to a letter from James Webber, a London merchant, who wishes to collect a debt owed to him by Ogden. In a post script, comments on the sale of Colonel [Alexander] Hamilton's St. Lawrence lands at a low price to [Alexander] Macomb. Adds that he declined the same offer for his lands. Asks if Gouverneur might be able to sell the land for a better price while he is in England.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Says it might be more agreeable to Smith to buy Knox's St. Lawrence lands instead of those further east. Reports The St. Lawrence lands are excellent in quality and are opposite to James Graves Simcoe's new government in Canada, where land is selling very high. Tells him Governor George Clinton can inform him on the lands. Declares that his proportion of the St. Lawrence lands is about 42,000 acres. Explains that Gouverneur Morris was empowered by Alexander Macomb to sell the whole, and it was said by the parties that he had made an agreement for him at a crown p[er] acre - but I have not heard lately from any of the parties. Describes the conditions of a possible sale. Mentions an advance of [dollar sign] 20,000. Speaks of many caveats depending on the situation with Morris.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Knox notes receipt of Constable's letter of 17 September 1790. Writes that although he told Constable on 23 July that he would accept the terms...for the St. Lawrence lands, three months have gone by and he cannot be expected to honor the same agreement.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Knox writes Macomb about the St. Lawrence lands. Samuel Ogden convinced Knox to buy them. Knox believes that in a year or two it will be sold for a much higher price then either you or I have hitherto contemplate.
Author: Richard Platt
Author: Richard Platt
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Richard Platt
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
Author: Richard Platt
Author: Richard Platt