- GLC#
- GLC02437.03053-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 4, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to John Mitchell
- Place Written
- Dorchester, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 33 cm, Width: 20.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Relates he has been appointed as a commissioner to "examine whether the people under the Government of Nova Scotia have encroached upon the territories of this state." Requests sworn testimony regarding Mitchell's [in some sources, Mitchel] previous survey of the St. Croix River. Contains a biographical note near docket, explaining Knox's role as commissioner. Written in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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