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[Memorial to the legislature of Massachusetts]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06364 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: February 1795 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 33.1 cm, Width: 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Memorial stating that Royal Flint entered into a contract with the Committee regarding the sale of a tract of land in the area of Maine and that surveyors have discovered that the Committee underestimated the actual acreage of the land.

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
Flint, Royal, 1754-1797

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