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To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 12 May 1794

From Henry Knox1

War Department, May 12, 1794. “I have the honor to transmit you as a matter of information the opinion of Mr Joshua Humphreys2 on the mode of procuring the white oak plank and timber.”

LC, RG 45, Letters Sent Concerning Naval Matters, National Archives.

1. This letter concerns provisions for the naval armament authorized by Congress. See Knox to H, April 21, 1794.

2. On June 28, 1794, Knox appointed Humphreys, a shipwright, “the Constructor or master builder of a Forty Four Gun ship to be built in the port of Philadelphia” (LC, RG 45, Letters Sent Concerning Naval Matters, National Archives).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 12 May 1794
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 12 May 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0343. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 16, February 1794 – July 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, pp. 406–407.]

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