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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09192-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 27 September 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Frankfort, Maine
- Pagination
- 5 p. : Height: 30.1 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Document is not signed but appears to be in Henry Knox's handwriting. Instructions regarding a proposition to the settlers in Frankfort, Maine for purchasing land and supplying the settlers with warrantee deeds. States if any settlers reject their [likely Henry Knox, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow who are the heirs and representatives of the late Brigadier General Samuel Waldo] proposition they will not be obligated to offer the deal again at a later date. One insert is included.
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