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Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06316 Author/Creator: Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 January 1795 Pagination: 2 p. ; 24.6 x 21.2 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses land deals that lay north of the Waldo patent in Maine. Informs Knox he may have to go New York, New York on business. Notes if he goes to New York he will stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Georgetown (present day a neighborhood in Washington D.C.).

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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