Autograph Letter Signed

Recommending Major Winslow

Knox is touting Major Winslow as an excellent candidate for an officer position, recommending him first as a major of cavalry. Knox lists Winslow's qualities which confirm his gentleman status and his fitness as an officer.

1798

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Boston

Very poor document legibility

James McHenry

Henry Knox

Isaac Hinton

Boston

Massachusetts

cavalry

officer

letter of recommendation

usurpers

defense

manners

I have the honor specifically to commerce to the office of the President of the United States and military employment Major Isaac Hinton

and although he never served in any army yet has spirit and his gentlemanly manners seem to qualify him eminently for an officer

he would officer a company of cavalry

knowing that the greater the number of candidate

it must however afford great satisfaction to every lover of his country that there appears at this crisis a deluge of all ages and ranks (with but few exceptions in this quarter) to press forward into the active defence of their country against a voracious and immoral set of usurpers, who have hitherto met with too little resistance

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