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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07332-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 30 November 1799
- Author/Creator
- Bradford, Joseph, fl. 1799
- Title
- [Certificate]
- Place Written
- Thomaston, Maine
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 30.1 cm, Width: 18.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
A certificate certifying that Bradford tendered to Henry Knox a deed of land "lying in the county of Hankock and State of Massachusetts...by a certain agreement made with James Swan." The price was $2 an acre. At the bottom of the document it reads, "the subscriber cannot pronounce as to the validity of the deed nor the right of Mr. Swan to give such a deed.-He cannot accept it - nor pay the fifty thousand dollars."
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