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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09278-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 1801 circa
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- [Petition for proection of his lands from the government of Massachusetts]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 14 p. : docket ; Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Pettition requesting that the Masschusetts government protect his lands against hostile squatters who live nearby, and who have repeatly attacked his surveyors and threatened violence to his lands. States that the government has promised protection, and has previously aided him, but that his lands remain threatened. Details the history of the attacks on his lands, and the opposition of these squatters and neighbors. Written some time shortly after August 1801.
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