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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09162-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- January 23, 1787
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Isaac Winslow, Jr.
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Marked "copy." Considers the viability of selling off lands to pay taxes the General Court has assessed on the Muscongus patent lands. Discusses other options to obtain the funds necessary to pay the taxes, such as asking the ten proprietors to pay some of the taxes. Also asks Isaac to ask his brother [likely Samuel Winslow] about the sentiments of settlers on the patent. Comments on several other matters relating to the patent lands.
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