Requests Communication and Collaboration with General Knox
Document 1793Requests that Hodgdon confer with General Knox, with whom he has written requesting some sort of aid on behalf of General Lincoln.
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Boston January 12th 1795
Sir
When you were in Boston in the Year [17]91 or 5, you [were] obliging as to accept a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Army Account, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] Subject to [undecipherable] you take any step in that business that was tend to throw any light upon it, I request that you will confer with General Knox to whom I have written by this conveyance, requesting his aid in obtaining [undecipherable] by the United States. I wish [undecipherable] means to obtain a [undecipherable] be encouragement to General Knox to oblige this [undecipherable] and thank you to point out [the] mode by which I may bring it to an [undecipherable] General [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] charge of the [undecipherable] and greatly oblige
[undecipherable] your most [undecipherable]
William [undecipherable]
Samuel Hodgdon Esqr
[Address leaf: Samuel Hodgdon Esq / Philadelphia]
[Docket, upper right of address leaf: [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] / 29 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Boston / [January?] 1795]
[Stamp: Received / State Dept / [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Requests that Hodgdon confer with General Knox, with whom he has written requesting some sort of aid on behalf of General Lincoln.
Date
01/12/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Boston
Document number
1793011280001
Page start
1
Note
Difficult to read
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
William Perkins
Henry Knox
General Lincoln
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Boston
Notable items
aid

