Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 10 May 1793
Henry Knox to Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] 10 May 1793
Dear Sir
Mr Allison has just arrived from Governor Blount with the enclosed letters. He says he thinks the Governor may be here in about three weeks.1 Yours sincerely
H. Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. David Allison was often the bearer of messages between William Blount in the Southwest Territory and officials in Philadelphia (Extracts of Correspondence on Indian Affairs, October 1792, note 21). Blount’s letters to Knox of 9 and 13 April and their nine enclosures can be found in 1:443–44, 449 (see also 134). For Blount’s trip to Philadelphia, see Knox to Lear, 9 Feb., n.1.