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Winchester, Edmund, fl. 1799-1805 [Mortgage cancelled]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07851 Author/Creator: Winchester, Edmund, fl. 1799-1805 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 23 March 1804 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 19.4 cm Order a Copy

Documents the cancellation of a mortgage made to Winchester by Henry Knox on a plot of land in Maine. Signed by Winchester and by David Russell as witness.

Winchester, Edmund, fl. 1799-1805
Russell, David, fl. 1803-1804
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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