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1798/08/29

Adams, John (1735-1826)

Document signed

Title: Appointment of commissioner Elijah Brigham (c/s Pickering)

c/s Timothy Pickering. His appointment was "to provide for the valuation of land and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States."

GLC06929

3 October 1803

Knox, Henry (1750-1806)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elijah Brigham, Dwight Foster and Kilborn Whitman

Location added later in pen. Writes to Brigham Foster and Whitman, all prominent jurists or Congressmen, in answer to their previous letter. Knox assures them that he still fully intends to submit to their decisions regarding the settler's rights cases pertaining to his lands in Maine.

GLC02437.07828

14 October 1803

Brigham, Elijah (1751-1816)

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Brigham, Foster and Whitman, as Commissioners, have received Knox's letter. They will be happy to see Knox at Waldoborough on 18 October to hold a meeting.

GLC02437.07831

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