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[Subscribers to the Penobscot Turnpike]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07685 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: November 1801 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 33.8 cm, Width: 18.7 cm Order a Copy

A list of subscribers petitioning to build a turnpike road from Harriman's Ferry in Prospect, Maine to Kennebec Bridge in Augusta, Maine. Each subscriber agrees to petition the Legislature for the road.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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