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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09202-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 October 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Samuel Winslow
- Place Written
- Portland, Maine
- Pagination
- 8 p. : docket ; Height: 28.8 cm, Width: 17.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses legal issues concerning the land owned and taxes owed by his late mother-in-law, Hannah Flucker, in Falmouth, Maine. Extracts are included which list out who the land was sold to and the amount of taxes paid. Expresses his desire to prevent future lands from being sold for taxes in the future.
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