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[Payment for land]
30 October 1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Agreement for a number of people to pay Knox for land annexed to their respective homes. Signed by David Fales among others.
GLC02437.06556
[Agreement with Henry Knox]
May 1795
Discusses Knox and his financial status.
GLC02437.06588
[Agreement with George Meade]
1795
Agreement to sell 100,000 acres of land to George Meade for $50,000.
GLC02437.06589
[Committee report on petition of Henry Jackson]
February 27, 1796
Phillips, Samuel, 1752-1802
Report describes an earlier agreement Henry Jackson and Royal Flint made with the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, specifying which lands they purchased. Explains that Jackson petitioned the committee to reduce the amount of land he is...
GLC02437.06642
[Land deed]
27 October 1795
Grants a land deed to Henry Jackson from Knox and his wife. Noted as a copy in the docket.
GLC02437.06552
[Deed on Brigadiers Island]
29 August 1794
Griffin, William, fl. 1794
A deed of sale for Brigadiers Island (present day Sears Island) in the Bay of Penobscot in present-day Maine. The deed is from William Griffin, Nathan Griffin, William Staples, Alexander Young, Jotham Staples, and Thomas Pendleton to Henry Knox....
GLC02437.06188
to Samuel Waldo
January 23, 1793
Discusses a purchase for a patent and property. Document is largely illegible. Watermarked "C Patch."
GLC02437.10261
to Nathan Dane
4 May 1793
Discusses difficulty with "Francis Waldo's proportion." Offers to "co-operate many reasonable measure on the part of the Flucker Family to prevent the Winslows from suffering by the omision of the bond, which I suppose they would have given if...
GLC02437.10265
[Indenture with Samuel Ogden]
1794
Indenture in which Samuel Ogden will hold a certain amount of land in trust from Knox and his wife, Lucy Knox.
GLC02437.10316
[Indenture between Henry Knox and Samuel Ogden]
Same as GLC02437.10316. Indenture in which Samuel Ogden will hold a certain amount of land in trust from Knox and his wife, Lucy Knox.
GLC02437.10317
Same as GLC02437.10316 and .10317. Indenture in which Samuel Ogden will hold a certain amount of land in trust from Knox and his wife, Lucy Knox.
GLC02437.10318
[Sale of land by Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln and Henry Jackson]
17 October 1798
Cosigned by Lincoln and Jackson. Countersigned by Samuel Cooper, Justice of the Peace, and Benjamin Weld as witnesses. Includes some Waldo Patent land and Brigadier's Island. Page four contains the following: 25 October 1798 signature of Samuel...
GLC02437.10328
[Bond agreements related to Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and Benjamin Lincoln]
December 1, 1798
Contains financial agreements dated 22 August, 17 October, and 1 December 1798. Related to bonds and mortgages pertaining to Knox, Jackson, and Lincoln.
GLC02437.10330
[Bond between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, Benjamin Lincoln and Benjamin Pickman]
3 April 1799
Knox, Jackson, and Lincoln are "firmly bound" to pay Pickman twelve thousand dollars. Contains details of their obligation. Partially printed. Docketed by Knox with the copied signatures of Lincoln and Jackson.
GLC02437.10334
[Mortgage from Knox to Henry Jackson]
January 1800
Knox mortgages 50,000 acres of Waldo Patent land to Henry Jackson as security for the payment of "sundry notes of hand." Pertains to a financial matter concerning James and Hepzibah Swan, John Coffin Jones, and Joseph Russell.
GLC02437.10339
[Deed]
circa 1789
Record of a deed for two plots of land. Includes a diagram at the bottom, possibly the blueprint of a building. The transaction involves the Library Company of Philadelphia.
GLC02437.10363
[Deed between Dumaresq and Thomas Fitch]
8 December 1729
Dumaresq, Phillip, fl. 1729-1738
Captain Dumaresq acknowledges receipt of £500 from Fritch for a house and tract of land. Cosigned by Phillip's wife Susanna. Countersigned by Samuel Tyby and Gabriel [LeBlond?], witnesses. Samuel Sewall, Jr., justice of the peace, signs a note at...
GLC02437.10407
[Notes]
17 September 1788
Notes from a meeting of the inhabitants of Thomaston, Maine regarding payments and deeds.
GLC02437.10420
to Samuel Ogden [incomplete]
circa 1784-1806
Discusses the deed to a tract of land and sends Lucy's regards to Samuel Ogden and his family. Letterpress copy.
GLC02437.10321
[Deed between Henry Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, Henry Jackson, and John Gore]
26 December 1798
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
Partially printed. Land sale of three thousand acres to John Gore. Cosigned by Jackson and Lincoln, whose signatures are struck. Countersigned by witnesses Samuel Cooper, Justice of the Peace, and John Norton. Again signed by Cooper 19 December...
GLC02437.10331
[Bond between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and Israel Thorndike]
Knox and Jackson promise to pay Thorndike six thousand dollars. Contains the details of their obligation.
GLC02437.10335
22 November 1788
Notes regarding land estates, debts and payments.
GLC02437.10422
List of inhabitants who have sign'd for their lands
1788
A list of men's names, how much land they have been issued a deed for, the date the deed was issued for, to whom the deed was issues, and what town the property is in. The towns include Warren, Thomaston and Owls Head, all in Maine.
GLC02437.10424
to William Green
12 September 1792
Discusses business transactions dealing with various amounts of money. $20,000 and $5,000 are needed "to complete the payment which will become due in sixty days after the survey shall be notified; and upon the puctuality of which, the validity of...
GLC02437.10254
to unknown [incomplete]
25 April 1793
States that he would like Captain John Hills, "a celebrated and scientific Surveyor and draughts man" to "make a perfect plan of the Waldo patent which has now become to me very interesting as I have agreed to purchase out the Winslow family."...
GLC02437.10263
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