Unknown [Agreement about a township mortgage]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07239 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 2 March 1799 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.3 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy
Mortgage agreement with General Knox "and the whole of Township No. 2 in the First Range North of the Waldo Patent and of 7600 acres adjoining to the aforesaid Township, such part of it lying in Hamden..." On the docket, Knox notes "Mr. Dane's responsible to me that he shall obtain a paper being obligation from Thorndike and Pickman-that upon my paying them a sum not less than 7500 Dollars they shall release a proportional part of the mortgaged Lands."
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