Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 4 May 1792

Tobias Lear to Henry Knox

United States [Philadelphia] 4 May 1792. Returns by GW’s command “the Instructions to Major Genl Wayne & a letter to Mr Seagrove, both of which meet the President[’s] approbation.”1

ALS (retained copy), DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.

1. War Department clerk Benjamin Bankson had transmitted Knox’s proposed letter to James Seagrove to Lear on the previous day and had asked that it be submitted to the president (DLC:GW). Neither of the enclosures has been identified.

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Title: Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 4 May 1792
Author: Lear, Tobias
Recipient: Knox, Henry
Date: 4 May 1792

Reference

Cite as: “Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 4 May 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0218. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 1 March 1792 – 15 August 1792, ed. Robert F. Haggard and Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 346–347.]

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