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Autograph letter signed

to Samuel Holten

October 24, 1782

Avery, John, 1739-1806

Avery informs Holten that Holten was elected as a delegate to represent Massachusetts in Congress and that his term will begin the first Monday of next November.

GLC01450.020.19
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Manuscript document signed

[Resolve]

January 27, 1802

Avery, John, 1739-1806

Signed by Edward H. Robbins (Speaker), David Cobb (President), and John Avery. Noted as a true copy. A resolve from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives regarding the petitioners in Hampden, Maine. The Legislature...

GLC02437.07710
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Manuscript document signed

[Massachusetts Congressional resolution]

February 12, 1803-February 18, 1803

Jones, John Coffin, 1750-1829

Resolution in response to the petition of Gustavas Swan and other settlers in a region of Knox's Waldo patent lands. Allows the residents an extra year to pay for the lots of land on which they have settled, and outlines the terms of the arrangement...

GLC02437.07787
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Manuscript document signed

Copy of an Act to establish the Kennebeck and Penobscot Corporation

24 June 1802

Avery, John, 1739-1806

The corporation is also referred to as the "first Maine Turnpike Corporation." Contains the following copied signature of John C. Jones (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives), David Cobb (President of the Massachusetts Senate), and...

GLC02437.10345
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Printed document signed

[Appointment of Knox as Justice of the Peace in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]

22 June 1804

Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819

Strong signs as Massachusetts Governor. Also signed by John Avery, Secretary of State. Verso contains a note dated 25 February 1805 signed by Lieutenant Governor Edward Robbins. Much of the text of this note, including part of Robbins's signature...

GLC02437.10348
GLC02437.09265
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Document signed

[Resolution regarding distribution of lands in the Waldo patent]

February 16, 1798 - February 23, 1798

Sumner, Increase, 1746-1799

Appointing a surveyor to settle a dispute over lands within the Waldo patent. Some of the lands recently granted to Waldo's heirs were withing the holding of the Plymouth company, and this overlap must be resolved. Also signed by Samuel Phillips...

GLC02437.09265
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Document signed

[Resolution regarding distribution of lands in the Waldo patent]

February 16, 1798 - February 23, 1798

Sumner, Increase, 1746-1799

Appointing a surveyor to settle a dispute over lands within the Waldo patent. Some of the lands recently granted to Waldo's heirs were withing the holding of the Plymouth company, and this overlap must be resolved. Also signed by Samuel Phillips...

GLC02437.09264
GLC02437.09251
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Manuscript document signed

[Resolution regarding taxes on the Waldo patent]

February 18, 1794

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

Resolution by the Massachusetts State Senate regarding taxes paid on the Waldo patent. States that while Knox is only in possesion of about one third the land on the patent he is being assessed taxes for the entire property. Decrees that all taxes...

GLC02437.09251
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Autograph letter signed

to Joseph B. Varnum

June 13, 1805

Avery, John, 1739-1806

An official letter written in Boston from John Avery, the Secretary of State for Massachusetts. It informs Varnum of his election to Major General of the Third Division of the Militia of the Commonwealth by the two branches of the Legislature.

GLC03845.05
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Printed document

Resolve confirming a grant of land of thirty miles square to the heirs of Birgadier Waldo, on certain conditions, July 4, 1785

4 July 1785

Phillips, Samuel, 1752-1802

Resolution by a General Court committee regarding lands given originally to Beauchamp and Leverett but now perhaps part of the Waldo patent. Authored by Phillips, Wells and Dane as members of the committee. Read and accepted by the Senate and...

GLC02437.09128
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Document signed

[Appointment for Simon Elliot as captain]

December 13, 1786

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

Appoints Elliot as an Adjutant in the militia with the rank of captain under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln. This militia was being raised to put down Shay's rebellion. At the time it was actually an illegitimate militia put together by the...

GLC01450.448.03
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Printed document signed

[Appointment for Simon Elliot as Major General]

18 June 1796

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

Appoints Elliot to the rank of Major General in the first division of the Massachusetts Militia. Massachusetts state seal affixed. Signed by Samuel Adams as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by John Avery as "Secretary." Docket on verso attests...

GLC01450.448.04
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Printed document signed

[Appointment of Simon Elliot as major general]

15 November 1800

Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819

Appoints Simon Elliot as Major General in the Massachusetts Militia. Elliot had been appointed to the same rank in 1796, which the document mentions. Signed by Caleb Strong as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by John Avery as "Secretary."...

GLC01450.448.06
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Printed document signed

[Henry Knox's seven-year appointment as Justice of the Peace for Lincoln County]

March 9, 1802

Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819

Signed by Massachusetts Governor, Caleb Strong. Signed by John Avery as Massachusetts Secretary of State.

GLC02437.10342
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Manuscript document signed

[Act allowing Henry Knox and others to build a canal from the Connecticut River to Boston]

March 9, 1792

Cobb, David, 1748-1830

Act allowing Henry Knox, John Coffin Jones, David Cobb, Benjamin Hichborn, and Henry Jackson to construct a canal connecting the Connecticut River to Boston. Signed for David Cobb, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; Samuel...

GLC02437.05339

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