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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05029-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 June 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Henry Jackson
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
References Jackson's letter of 19 June (GLC02437.05012) which contained the proposals of the committee for the sale of 2 million acres east of the Penobscot River. Says that without maps he cannot give a precise opinion upon the proposed boundaries. Cannot "conceive they are sufficiently clear - the tract ought to be located as far to the southward as possible, so that it may bound upon the navigable part of the [Scoodrach] and the other rivers which run into the bays & sea coast..." Goes on to comment about boundaries at length. Says the committee offered Mr. Ogden 20 townships or about 400,000 acres on the Kennebec. Wants Jackson to collect the best information on the quality of the land that he can. Relates that the committee's practice of making no allowance for ponds or bogs "seems to be reversing the general rule in the sale of lands - an allowance of five p cent is made for this object." Crosses out the bottom of page 4, but says the lands must be situated as near the sea as possible.
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