Winslow solicits a federal appointment from Knox
Document 1789Letter, asks for appointment in Revenue Department.
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Portland June 11.
General Henry Knox
New York
[Free]
[no date]
[received Noth [undecipherable]
[Recd. June 15, 1788]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter, asks for appointment in Revenue Department.
Date
06/10/1789
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Portland
Repository
Collection
Document number
1789061040001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Samuel Winslow
Notable locations
New York
Portland
York County
Cumberland County
Lincoln County
Notable items
district
Collectorship of Imports
Naval Offices
objects of Magnitude
approv'd conduct secure to the possessor a permanent & decent living
soliciting your kind influence
necessary Eastern pursuits
immediate prospects of advantage
capital for business
patent
official engagements
certain regular support
unproductive Eastern interests
facility in the executing any business
spirit in the pursuit
prosperity of the Federal Empire
unremitting industry & energy exercising the duties of whatever station
strict regularity & punctuality indispensably necessary to the maintenance of character
prior engagements
Congress
Revenue Department
dilemma
real friends to my welfare
present precarious establishment
ardent desire to maintain respectability in life
bring forward my boys with reputation and by a proper education to fit them for genteel Society
hazard the reception
application
country
act in some Department under the Federal Government
necessary appontments in the Revenue must be extensive
counties