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[Estimate]

Estimate of expenses for an expedition to Cape Breton and for any payments owed from Samuel Waldo's service at Louisbourg.

GLC02437.08918

[Certificate]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Benjamin Bron is enlisted in the infantry under George Gerrish's command, which will be sent to Canada. Also verified, signed and dated by Joseph Wadsworth...

GLC02437.08924

[Certificate]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Andrew Abram is enlisted in the infantry under John Terry's command, which will be sent to Canada. Also verified, signed and dated by John Harwood, 14 August...

GLC02437.08926

[Court case]

Appears to be a petition. Consists of expenses and reserve pay for his efforts in the expedition against Cape Breton and the siege of Louisburg. Documents includes copied signatures of a number of people, including a Mr. Hutchinson, Sir William...

GLC02437.08932

to Samuel Waldo

Discusses an expedition into Canada and various officers who could lead such an expedition. Lower right hand corner of the 3rd page is missing.

GLC02437.08934

[Certificate]

Certifies that Samuel Waldo has been appointed to the position of Brigadier General over the troops from Massachusetts.

GLC02437.08936

to James Bowdoin

Discusses how his whaling business is not doing so well and therefore is going to the Bahamas on a trading voyage in order to make money for a bond. Place writ obscured due to a patch. Possibly Nantucket, Massachusetts.

GLC02437.08938

[Extract]

Extract of a deed to Daniel [Brgele ?] from Samuel Waldo describing a tract of land.

GLC02437.08947

[Deed]

Grants Thomas Flucker the rights to an estate and property. Signed by James and William Bowdoin, with several other people. Includes notes from Joshua Winslow as Justice of the Peace signed Boston 15 June and a note of receipt from Ezekiel...

GLC02437.08950

[Deed]

Deed of land from Belthazar Bayard to Thomas Flucker. Includes a note from Thomas Hubbard dated Boston 15 June and a note of receipt from Ezekiel Goldthwait dated 16 June.

GLC02437.08951

[List]

List of papers relating to French and English boundaries. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08953

to Thomas Flucker

Discusses a bill to Flucker's account and a negotiation regarding prices of merchandise. Noted as written in Colchester, state and/or country unknown.

GLC02437.08954

[List]

Debts due to Isaac Winslow, listed by the name of the debtor.

GLC02437.08959

[List]

List of people sent to a settlement. Includes unrelated notes regarding finances.

GLC02437.08960

[Account]

Lists transactions regarding provisions sent to Isaac Winslow by date, starting in November 1752.

GLC02437.08961

[List]

List of people and supplies.

GLC02437.08965

[Sale of land]

Contract for the sale of land. Signed by John Philips and Jacob Ridgway as witnesses, with notes of receipt from John Philips, dated 31 December 1753 and Ezekiel Goldthwait dated 8 August 1754.

GLC02437.08972

[List]

Lists passengers from Amsterdam by name and date of arrival.

GLC02437.08973

[List]

List of supplies for Isaac Winslow for a settlement. Transactions listed by date.

GLC02437.08978

[Bill of sale]

Sale of various items to Thomas Flucker, including a pan to boil sugar, copper ladles and other items. Also signed by William Belcher and James Hills as witnesses.

GLC02437.08989

[Account]

Accounts for the late James Bowdoin, with an inventory of his estate. Notes that James Pitts is his executor.

GLC02437.08999

to Samuel Waldo et. al.

Written from "Leicester Square," likely in London, England. Addressed to Samuel Waldo, Francis Waldo, Isaac Winslow, and Thomas Flucker. Discusses the lands being granted to Samuel Waldo and his heirs by the British government. Mentions Governor...

GLC02437.09009

to William Bollan

Illegible signature. Apparently discusses claims on land bordering the Earl of Stirling's land, possibly in the Waldo patent.

GLC02437.09010

to Samuel Waldo et. al.

Marked "duplicate." Written from "Leicester Square," likely in London, England. Addressed to Samuel Waldo, Francis Waldo, Isaac Winslow, and Thomas Flucker. Writes, "The enclosed copy [not present] of the Petition which I have presented to His...

GLC02437.09014

to William Bollan

Unsigned, but author may be Samuel Waldo, Francis Waldo, Isaac Winslow, or Thomas Flucker, as the letter is a response to a letter Bollan wrote to them (see GLC02437.09014). Thank him for going to all the trouble of submitting a petition to His...

GLC02437.09018

to Francis Waldo et. al.

Written from Leicester Square, likely in London, England. Addressed to Francis Waldo, Isaac Winslow, and Thomas Flucker. Summarizes to them his letter from 24 April (see GLC02437.09014). Expresses frustration at their inquiries regarding what fees...

GLC02437.09019

[Account with Thomas Flucker]

Financial account between Edward Adams and Thomas Flucker between 1765 and 1769.

GLC02437.09026

[Obligation to James Pitts & Thomas Flucker]

Promise from Adams to deliver particular goods for Pitts and Flucker to sell.

GLC02437.09043

[Indenture between the Waldo heirs and the Twenty Associates]

The heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo and their spouses agree to sell the original twenty associates of the Lincolnshire Company certain tracts of land in the Waldo patent, which were promised to the associates by Brigadier General Waldo.

GLC02437.09050

[Account with Thomas Flucker]

Financial account between Flucker and Adams from 1767 to 25 April 1768.

GLC02437.09052

[Complaint from settlers at Broad Bay]

Signed by Schnaudiel as well as over twenty others. The authors, all German by birth, allege that in 1753, they were approached in Germany by Samuel Waldo, Jr. and offered settlement at Broad Bay in New England. The authors sold their homes in...

GLC02437.09057

[Account with Thomas Flucker]

Financial account between Edward Adams and Thomas Flucker.

GLC02437.09068

[Power of Attorney given to Francis Waldo]

Agreement that John Bullock has given power of attorney to Francis Waldo, in order for Waldo to recover a bond given by the late Samuel Waldo to the late Josiah Bullock. Signed by John Bullock, as well as William Harper as witness. Also present is...

GLC02437.09070

to Thomas Caldwell and Ephraim Cummings [incomplete]

Contains several letters, all of which discuss lands in New Hampshire in which the heirs of Brigadier Samuel Waldo have interest.

GLC02437.09076

[Deed to Richard Clarke]

Marked "copy." Notes that the Superior Court of Massachusetts granted the authors, as surviving executors of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo's estate, the power to sell lands of Waldo's to pay his debts. The present deed documents the sale of a land...

GLC02437.09080

[List of German settlers on east side of Broad Bay]

List of German settlers on the east side of Broad Bay received from the Schoolmaster in May 1773.

GLC02437.09082

to Thomas Flucker

Writes that he has been waiting to hear about Flucker's son's commission, but has not yet. Is very unhappy about the status of Colonel [Thomas] Goldthwait's application to settle the town of Frankfort, in the Waldo patent, and discusses how it...

GLC02437.09089

to Samuel Brown, Jonathan Crocket, and Robert Jameson

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...

GLC02437.09155

to John Anstey

Unsigned, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Reports that two British citizens, Lord Loughborough [possibly Alexander Wedderburn, subsequently 1st Earl of Rosslyn] and John Skinner, have an interest in a portion of the Muscongus...

GLC02437.09176

[List]

Document is not signed but appears to be in Henry Knox's handwriting. A list of islands and its inhabitants lying east of Carvers Island, Maine. Date was added later in pencil.

GLC02437.09187

[Land agreement]

Document is signed by Henry Knox, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow, and numerous others inhabitants. A land agreement involving Henry Knox, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow (the heirs and representatives of the late Brigadier General Samuel Waldo), and...

GLC02437.09188

[William Burns's declaration regarding the Muscongus settlement]

Burns discusses his settlement on Samuel Waldo's Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo or Linconshire Patent, land in present-day Maine). Discusses improvements Burns made to a stone house, and mentions his black cattle. Burns was given command...

GLC02437.10410

[John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]

Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township...

GLC02437.10411

to Timothy Pickering

Washington instructs Pickering, Quartermaster General, to extract 150 lbs. from the "British Military Chest" to pay General Henry Knox for use in his artillery department. Docket, in the hand of William Knox, indicates this order is a copy. A...

GLC02437.09308

to Henry Knox and Gouvenor Morris

Discusses Morris and Knox's progress regarding "the commission you were charged with by me" (possibly a commission to negotiate prisoner exchange with the British in Elizabethtown, New Jersey). Has received Morris and Knox's dispatches, as well as...

GLC02437.09309

to Benjamin Lincoln

Written from military Headquarters in New York. Washington, Commander in Chief of Continental forces, writes to Lincoln, Secretary at War. Discusses extra allowances requested by General Henry Knox, declaring the allowances "perfectly reasonable...

GLC02437.09310

to Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Alexander Hamilton

Washington provides instructions for his ministers to follow in his absence from the seat of government. Plans to travel to Savannah, Georgia. Presents an itinerary for his travels, noting the days he plans to pass through specific cities. Asserts...

GLC02437.09311

to Henry Knox

Later copy. Wishes to postpone a certain undiscussed matter until the next day, and perhaps put it off entirely.

GLC02437.09313

to Henry Knox

Later copy. Has discussed with members of Congress "in time of Peace of Uniting the Offices of Secty for War and Master of Ordinance in one person." Also upset with "stupidity of the Postmaster at Princeton" due to a great deal of his mail being...

GLC02437.09314

to Henry Knox

Later copy of a letter written to Henry Knox, briefly discussing the begining of the Constitutional Convention, and his election as chair of the Convention. Copy made on 1 February 1854 according to note at top of first page.

GLC02437.09315