1. Knox’s journey north apparently was a business trip. On Thursday, 7 June, Knox wrote his wife, Lucy Flucker Knox, from New York: “Here I am yet. But I hope to get away tomorrow—most certainly my public business is suffering. Upon the fullest consideratio⟨n⟩ of the subject I have agreed with Mr [William] Duer to relinquish all claims to the eastern [Massachusetts] purchases, provided he shall on or before the first day of March next give me real or personal security to my approbation or public stock . . . 37500 Dollars or fifteen thousand pounds New York Curry divided into three equal installments” to be paid over the next three years. In a postscript Knox added that his wife should “Remember however the Agreement with Duer is a secret” (NNGL: Knox Papers). On the following evening, 8 June, Knox wrote his wife from Elizabeth, N.J.: “I am here on my return having staid longer than I expected—I finished my business in New York agreably to the plan I mentioned whether it will be productive time will discover—If the first payment shall be made in time all may be well—every thing will therefore depend on that point” (NNGL: Knox Papers). Knox returned to Philadelphia by 14 June (see Knox’s letter to his daughter Lucy, 14 June 1792, NNGL: Knox Papers). For the background to Henry Knox’s land speculations, see Knox to GW, 21 Dec. 1788, note 1.