1585-1763

Bradstreet, Simon, ?-1697

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Indenture of Adam Martin].

Indenture placing Adam Martin as an appertance to James Wood for 19 years. Countersigned by Samuel Sewall.

GLC08281

9 October 1770

Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672

Manuscript document

Title: [Translation of West India Company deed for Teunis Cornelisse]

Translation of GLC02542.01, a 1652 Dutch deed conveying land to Cornelisse. Translated by J. Roorbach, who dated and signed it at the bottom of the page.

GLC02542.01.01

24 July 1789

Frost, William, 1747-1827

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Has found one hundred seventy five deeds and returns, in the files of the York county registers office, relating to the Waldo patent, a large tract of land owned by Knox.

GLC02437.09225

1788

Manuscript document

Title: List of inhabitants who have sign'd for their lands

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

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement]

Agreement between Samuel Waldo and settlers in the St. Georges region regarding the division of land.

GLC02437.09931

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Arguments]

Arguments relating to a contract between the commonwealth, most likely Massachusetts, and proprietors of a particular plot of land. Likely related to Knox's land dealings in Maine.

GLC02437.09938

7 April 1768

Manuscript document

Title: [Indenture]

Discusses a land agreement between the heirs of Samuel Waldo on the one part and a group of investors including Benjamin Lynde and James Bowdoin on the other part.

GLC02437.09051

January 21, 1767-February 20, 1770

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

Manuscript letter signed

Title: [Continuation of agreement with Joseph Palmer]

Agreement continuing the partnership between Thomas Flucker and Joseph Palmer in a spermecetti manufacturing business as their original agreement from 1763 is about to expire. Consent to slight alterations in their agreement. Signed by both Flucker and Palmer. A note on the bottom, dated 20 February, 1770, in Boston, declares that "The above continuation of our partnership is wholly settled this Day" and is signed by Palmer.

GLC02437.09060

13 November 1769

Paine, Timothy, 1730-1793

Manuscript document signed

Title: to unknown

Provides information on a deed the heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo gave to a Captain Witt.

GLC02437.09061

22 March 1770

Fales, David, fl. 1770-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Flucker

Written from "St. George's," likely in present-day Thomaston, Maine. Discusses a deed he drew up for Mr. Isaiah [Tolman] for three hundred fifty acres of land. Also mentions meeting with disillusioned settlers, including those [likely German immigrants] at Broad Bay.

GLC02437.09063

4 May 1770-7 December 1770

Knight, Nathaniel, fl. 1770

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Thomas Flucker

Has enclosed a plan for the lands Flucker sold to him previously. Would like Flucker to made a deed out for himself and his son. Verso contains two notes by Thomas Flucker, one of which is written from Boston, about their financial transactions.

GLC02437.09066

8 June 1770

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt]

No author's name is listed; the docket includes what might be the author's name, but it is illegible. Agreement between the author and Thomas Flucker and Isaac Winslow regarding the purchase of land.

GLC02437.09069

30 November 1772

Manuscript document

Title: Agreement between Wheeler & Goldthwait

Written from Fort Pownall, at present-day Stockton Springs, Maine. Agreement between Thomas Goldthwait and Benjamin Wheeler relating to the construction of a dam. They agree to split the cost of the construction, as well as on the use of the water collected by the dam.

GLC02437.09074

April 1773

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Agreement between Thomas Flucker and Samuel Marshall] [incomplete]

Partial copy of an agreement between Samuel Marshall, a fisherman living in Lincoln County, Maine, and Thomas Flucker. Marshall asserts that although he has built a log house and fence on a portion of land on the east side of St. George's River, he lays no claim of ownership on the house or land. Signed on behalf of Flucker and Marshall, as well as Henry Laughton and Francis [Skinner] as witnesses. Attested to be a true copy by Samuel Winslow.

GLC02437.09081

25 May 1773

Paine, Timothy, 1730-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Flucker

A place of writing is included, but largely illegible. Encloses a plan for lands to be sold to Mr. William Young (not present). Discusses the quality of these and other lands belonging to the Waldo patent.

GLC02437.09085

1 November 1774

Cooper, William, 1720-1809

Document signed

Title: [Marriage between Captain James Urquhart and Hannah Flucker]

Partially printed. William Cooper, as Town Clerk of Boston, asserts that Captain James Urquhart and Hannah Flucker have satisfied the legal requirements to be married.

GLC02437.09092

January 10,1775-January 24, 1775

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Deed for David Trickey]

Deed in which Hannah and Thomas Flucker sell land to David Trickey. Signed by the Fluckers as well as by Francis Waldo and James Urquhart as witnesses.

GLC02437.09093

4 July 1785

Manuscript document

Title: Report of the committee which was accepted the 4th of July 1785, established a contract between the Commonwealth & the proprietors for thirty miles square

Discusses the implications of the report made by a General Court committee on a portion of the Waldo patent lands (see GLC02437.09128). Considers how the committee's recommendations may be put into action.

GLC02437.09129

4 July 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Report of a committee which was accepted the 4th of July, 1785 established a Contract between thte Commonwealth & the proprietors for thirty miles square

Copy of GLC02437.09129 but contains additional content, some of which appears to be written in the hand of Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09130

14 October 1785

Hunt, William, fl. 1785-1792

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement with William Hunt]

Contract stating that Henry Knox, Samuel and Isaac Winslow, and Samuel Waldo are "held & stand firmly bound & Obliged unto William Hunt of Boston" for the Muscongus patent. Declares that Hunt is writing as clerk of the ten original proprietors of the patent. States the details of the arrangement. Docket asserts that this document was sent to Knox by William Hunt, but that he did not sign it, and instead signed a later copy.

GLC02437.09135

14 October 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond with the ten proprietors]

Largely identical to GLC02437.09135, but signed by Henry Knox, Isaac Winslow, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow the 2nd, Elizabeth Winslow, and Sarah Tyng Winslow (though all names are written in the same hand). Also signed by Henry Jackson, John Hall, and [Amnri] Hall as witnesses.

GLC02437.09136

14 October 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond with the ten proprietors]

Copy of GLC02437.09136. Signed by Isaac Winslow, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow the 2nd, Elizabeth Winslow, and Sarah Tyng Winslow (though all names are written in the same hand). Also signed by [Cobb] Blodget, [Abial] Morton, William Davis, Jr. and Martha Winslow as witnesses. Unsigned by Knox, but marked as copy and discussed in Knox's hand in the docket.

GLC02437.09137

1 November 1785

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Manuscript document

Title: [Bond to Thomas Ivers]

Marked "copy." Bond to Thomas Ivers, the treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for a sum of money to be paid by the heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo. Jackson signs on behalf of Henry Knox. Also signed by Isaac Winslow, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow the 2nd, Elizabeth Winslow, and Sarah Tyng Winslow (though all names are written in the same hand).

GLC02437.09139

February 13, 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document signed

Title: [Mortgage deed]

Knox's signature has been heavily redacted. Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Discusses a deed of mortgage between Henry Knox and Edmund Winchester where Winchester now has claims to a tract of land from Knox. Authorized and signed by Samuel Cooper, countersigned by [J. le Febery] and noted as received at the register's office by Thomas Price on 4 March 1799.

GLC02437.10727

circa 1804

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of notes regarding settlers of the Waldo Patent. Lists items by the name of the settler (more than 100 are cited), date (ranging from 1801 to 1804), landlord, size of the plot, amount due on their land and the amount of interest.

GLC02437.10730