Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Benjamin Lincoln
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03047 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: August 1784 Pagination: 1 p. ; 23 x 18.8 cm. Order a Copy
Later copy. Writes, "You must probably have been informed of being chosen with Mr Partridge and myself to examine the encroachments of the british on the eastern line of this State, and to endeavor to form some compromise with the Penobscot Indians respecting the lands which they now occupy- Will you accept the commission?" Possibly written at Massachusetts.
Knox, Lincoln, and George Partridge were chosen as commissioners to examine charges that the people of Nova Scotia had trespassed into American territory, and to settle an eastern boundary line. Refer to the book: Henry Knox : a soldier of the Revolution, major-general in the Continental Army, Washington’s chief of artillery, first secretary of war under the Constitution, founder of the Society of Cincinnati, 1750-1806, by Noah Brooks.
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