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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Bonds cancelled]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07709 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: January 22, 1802 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy

Document signed by Henry Knox and Phillip Greeley and Robert Swan as witnesses. A receipt for a cancelled land bond purchased by Jonathan Quinby from Henry Knox. The original note was for the sum of $812 plus interest to be paid in three years for 200 acres of land in Hancock Couunty, Maine. A note written and signed by Jonathan Quinby is on the third page. Another note at the bottom of the third page states the bond was cancelled on 23 [September] 1802. Date was possibly written at a later date. Letter is possibly a duplicate of GLC02437.07708.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Quinby, Jonathan, fl. 1802

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