circa 1795-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Survey notes]

Packet of notes which appear to be from a survey describing various plots of land, including the Washington Plantation, Knox Plantation and Penobscot Plantation. Also includes three diagrams, one of the "Boneport Plantation" on the 11th page, one of the "Plantation of Green" on the 15th and another smaller one in graphite on the 16th page.

GLC02437.08280

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Plan for selling land]

Discusses different methods to sell land.

GLC02437.08153

circa 28 October 1785-1795

Tatham, William, 1752-1819

Autograph note signed

Title: [Request]

Says he will shortly be able to provide the War Office with "a good general Draft, accompanied with pretty accurate Details of most parts of the Union." Written in the third person and signed in text.

GLC02437.08155

1791

Manuscript document

Title: [Articles of agreement] [incomplete ?]

Agreement to form a company after acquiring large tracts of land in Massachusetts. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08157

circa 1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: [A proposal on a principle of finance & oeconomy]

Discusses a transaction involving large quantities of wood, and another involving a "contract for copper coin." Reference to contract with [James] Jarvis used to establish circa date.

GLC02437.08158

circa 1791-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Report on Long Island]

Describes Long Island in Penobscot, most likely for the purposes of either getting people to settle there or to sell the land.

GLC02437.08159

circa 1795-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Thoughts on aging] [incomplete]

Poem or essay on Montpelier (Knox's estate) and the "downhill slope of life." Later docket references "letters left by Mrs. Thatcher by mistake" in 1845.

GLC02437.08160

1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Thoughts on military action] [incomplete]

Discusses the [pending?] arrival of "C.G." [the Comte de Grasse], and potential British troop placements in New York and Virginia, and how this would impact a proposed American operation. See GLC02437.08176 for a related document.

GLC02437.08161

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript letter

Title: to unknown

Informs the recipient of his marriage and expresses his thanks for all of the help and kindness he has been shown.

GLC02437.08163

circa July 1786

Manuscript document

Title: [Speech of a Chief of the Chipewas]

Discusses finding a way to live peaceably with the settlers. States that they are very poor and asks for clothing, guns, and liquor. Copy, written in the hand of Robert Pemberton, War Department Secretary.

GLC02437.08166

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement]

List of items in an agreement concerning land deals.

GLC02437.08168

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Efforts for a navy] [incomplete ?]

Later copy. Describes the efforts of someone in organizing a navy.

GLC02437.08169

1792

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Memoir on the militia of Massachusetts

Manuscript speech discussing the issue of whether or not to have a standing army. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08170

circa 1795-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Thoughts on the establishment of the U.S. Navy]

Discusses Henry Knox's role in the establishment of the U.S. Navy.

GLC02437.08173

circa 1789-1796

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Memo]

Discusses land deals with Madame de Leval and Mr. de la Roche, most likely in regards to land in Maine.

GLC02437.08178

circa 1791-1806

Leval, Rosalie Josephe Bacler de, ?-1811

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry Knox [in French]

Verso, in another hand, includes a detailed diagram of a structure (Knox's house?).

GLC02437.08179

1784

Tudor, William, 1750-1819

Manuscript document

Title: [Report]

Discusses a misunderstanding regarding the presentation to Congress by [Richard] Soderstrom of his credentials as consul from Sweden. Docket attributes this to "Judge [William] Tudor." Probably in a secretarial hand.

GLC02437.08180

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Concerning land in Maine]

Discusses the inhabitants of Thomaston, Maine and land business.

GLC02437.08181

circa 1788-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [incomplete]

Says that the "forgoing principles" should be "[debated] according to the legal [forms]" and that additions and explanations advised by Mr. A. Ogden and Mr. Hornblower should be made. Possibly related to GLC02437.03775.

GLC02437.08185

circa 1777-1786

Printed document

Title: [Rules for enlisting men for service]

Provides a set of guidelines for enlisting men into the service. Includes rules stating "Neither Negroes, Mulattoes, or Indians, shall be inlisted [sic] in the Service of the United States. Every Man under five Feet six Inches in Height shall be refused. No Man under sixteen, or above forty-five Years of Age, shall be inlisted [sic]. Every Man, who shall be inlisted [sic], must be robust and perfectly formed, with Respect to his Body, Limbs and Organs, and in full Health." Circa date is based on reference to "Col." Jackson in the docket. This most likely pertains to Henry Jackson, who held…

GLC02437.08189

24 September 1787

Hornblower, John, fl. 1787

Autograph document signed

Title: [Directions for mining]

Discusses the necessary measures for proper mining.

GLC02437.08191

24 September 1787

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: The heads or principles of the lease

Discusses copper mines and a related lease. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08192

circa 1787-1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Lease details]

Contract concerning a lease for copper mines.

GLC02437.08193

circa 1793

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Autograph document

Title: [Recommendations submitted to the Commissioners regarding the U.S. relations with the Six Nations]

An outline of conduct during the treaty with the Six Nations as recommended by the Commissioners. Promotes and establishes a peaceful relationship between the settlers and Indians. Date previously inferred in pencil.

GLC02437.08196

circa 1790-1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Notes]

Estimates to pay and equip troops, and sums for the governor, as superintendent of Indian Affairs "to effect a peace before the start of the campaign."

GLC02437.08197