Knox sends to Congress the petition of General Greene's widow
Document 1790Report, describes petition of Catherine Greene.
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Type
Document, type undetermined
Description
Report, describes petition of Catherine Greene.
Date
03/04/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790030400001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Banks
Catherine Greene
General Greene
Notable locations
New York
South Carolina
Georgia
United States
Notable items
your petitioner and her children in order to satisfy those obligations which her late husband was constrained to enter into for the public service
helpless children will be exposed to all the bitter effects of poverty
firmest hope and expectation
fulll examination into the transaction stated in her late husband's representation
pass an act to indemnify her estate
ruin which impends
payment of obligations
company as collateral securities
designs in this and all other earthly respects were frustrated by his untimely death
suits for the recovery of the said bonds and other collatteral securities have been protracted by the death of the debtors and various other
future distant period
amount uncertain not only the estates conferred on her late husband by the munificent gratitude of the states
indemnification
intention he instituted suits for the recovery of the bonds and mortgages by him received
object on which her petition is founded in generally stated in the representation hereunto annexed
her late husband
August
appear by the said representation that it was the intention of her late husband
ascertained the loss on the transaction
Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled the Petition of Catharine Greene's