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    Henry Knox

    Founding Father, 1st United States sekreterare of War (1750–1806)

    "General Knox" redirects here. For other uses, see General Knox (disambiguation).

    Major General

    Henry Knox

    Portrait bygd Gilbert Stuart, 1806

    In office
    December 23, 1783 – June 20, 1784
    Appointed byConfederation Congress
    Preceded byGeorge Washington (Commander-in-Chief)
    Succeeded byJohn Doughty
    In office
    March 8, 1785 – December 31, 1794
    PresidentGeorge Washington
    Preceded byBenjamin Lincoln
    (as sekreterare at War)
    Succeeded byTimothy Pickering
    Born(1750-07-25)July 25, 1750
    Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
    DiedOctober 25, 1806(1806-10-25) (aged 56)
    Thomaston, District of Maine, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Resting placeThomaston by Cemetery
    Thomaston, Maine, U.S.
    Political partyFederalist
    Spouse
    Children3
    RelativesHenry Thatcher (grandson)
    Signature
    AllegianceUnited Stat
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    Henry Knox on the British invasion of New York, 1776

    When twenty-six-year-old Henry Knox, the Continental Army’s artillery commander, penned this letter to his wife, Lucy, on July 8, 1776, patriot morale was at a low point. The summer of 1776 was a particularly hard time as word of Congress’s Declaration of Independence had not yet reached George Washington’s headquarters, while just five days earlier, the British had orchestrated the largest amphibious landing of the eighteenth century when they put a powerful force on Staten Island. Knox understood the critical nature of the Continental Army’s situation when he said, “The eyes of all America are upon us, the matters which we are to act are of infinitely high import as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.&rdquo Knox told his wife of a little more than two years that 10,000 redcoats occupied the other side of New York harbor; by the middle of August there would be 32,000 redcoats to face-off against the 7,000

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    COLLECTION GUIDES

    Detailed Description of the Collection

    I. Personal papers, 1736-1803

    Box 1Vol. 1

    Waldo, Samuel. Defence of the Title of the Late John Leverett Esq.; To a tract of land of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, commonly called Muscongus Lands, lying upon the St. George's, Muscongus, and Penobscott Rivers [with supplement]. [Boston], 1736.

    This volume is Henry Knox's personal copy of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo's defense of John Leverett's claim to the Muscongus (or Waldo) Patent lands around Thomaston and Waldoborough, Me., which Henry Knox acquired from General Waldo through Knox's wife and Waldo's granddaughter, Lucy Flucker Knox. Included are discussions and purchase agreements with local Indians, issues of jurisdiction and defense responsibility with the Massachusetts Bay government, and legal history of the patent lands before and after the Utrecht Settlement of 1713. The supplement contains republished copies of deeds, titles, purchase agreements,