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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Deed regarding sale of Flucker estate]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05463 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 13 May 1792 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 29.3 cm, Width: 18.8 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Knox in the text of the docket. Outlines how he, Henry Knox, as agent and administrator of the estate of his late father-in-law Thomas Flucker, has arranged with the Massachusetts General Court to sell the estate at auction to pay off his debts. Date taken from docket.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783
Peirce, Joseph, 1748-1812

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