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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09171-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 December 1787
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Thomas Hutchins
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 33.5 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Portions of the letter appear to be in Knox's handwriting. Writes to Captain T. Hutchins (likely Thomas Hutchins, a surveyor and Geographer of the United States) to ask questions about portions of the Muscongus patent. Transcribes the text of an act of legislation passed by the Massachusetts General Court in 1785 on the subject. Asks particularly about navigation of the Penobscot River, which forms the western boundary of the land he describes.
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