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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Ebenezer Dunton

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06649 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter Date: 4 March 1796 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Unsigned, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Provides extensive instructions to Dunton, for when he arrives back in Maine, to continue building projects he left behind at the end of the previous fall. The project seems to specifically be two build two houses on the St. Georges River. Marked "copy."

Dunton, Ebenezer, fl. 1794-1796
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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