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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09155-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 August 1786
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Samuel Brown, Jonathan Crocket, and Robert Jameson
- Place Written
- Thomaston, Maine
- Pagination
- 7 p. : docket ; Height: 32.2 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Signed by Knox and Isaac Winslow Jr., though both signatures, as well as the letter's content, are in Knox's hand. Addressed to Brown, Crocket and Jameson as members of a Committee for Thomaston. Document suggests regulations and procedures for settlers on land belonging to Winslow and Knox, acting as representatives for the heirs and executors of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo.
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