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Fales, Nathaniel (1727-1797) to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03086 Author/Creator: Fales, Nathaniel (1727-1797) Place Written: Thomaston, Maine Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 14 January 1785 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 30.7 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy

Asks for permission to continue burning lime in a kiln he built, apparently on land he bought from Thomas Flucker, Knox's father-in-law. Writes, "I am gratly regoyst to hear your honer thinkes of coming to live amonst us which I beleve will be much for your entrest and a grat blesen to the inhabitants... i have don the best i cold to rase the credit of your Lime..."

Fales, Nathaniel, 1727-1797
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

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