Unknown [Receipt of cancelled bond]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07647 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Maine Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 29 October 1801 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 18.7 x 15.2 cm. Order a Copy
First page signed by John Rynier and David [Fales] as witnesses to the original agreement. Page two includes the receipt which is signed by James McCullison, Samuel Tilton (possibly a witness) and John Gleason as a witness. Appears to be a receipt for a cancelled bond for land in Hancock Country, Maine. Receipt shows James McCullison paid his note in full to Henry Knox for $545 plus interest for 100 acres owned by Knox.
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