Request for Help to a Captain in Finding Lumber Buyers
Document 1795Knox informs Humphreys that the bearer, Captain Malcolm, is from the region in Maine to which Knox is moving. Malcolm has brought in a cargo of lumber, and asks Humphreys to help Malcolm find purchasers for it.
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[Gent Knox
2 May 1795]
Dear Sir
The bearer is Capt Malcom who has arrived from St Georges river, in the district of Maine where I am going to reside. He has brought a cargo of lumber. Being a stranger I request that you would be so good as to inform him of the persons most probable to be purchasers.
Yours sincerely
Knox
Joshua Humphreys Esqr
2 May [undecipherable] 95
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Knox informs Humphreys that the bearer, Captain Malcolm, is from the region in Maine to which Knox is moving. Malcolm has brought in a cargo of lumber, and asks Humphreys to help Malcolm find purchasers for it.
Date
05/02/1795
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1795050290001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joshua Humphreys
Henry Knox
Captain Malcolm
Notable locations
Maine
Notable items
cargo of lumber