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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09189 Author/Creator: Place Written: Frankfort, Maine Type: Manuscript document Date: 27 September 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30 cm, Width: 18.1 cm Order a Copy

A list of the settlers in the town of Frankfort, Maine in 1788. The list contains the names of the "old" settlers who settled under Colonel Goldthwait and the "new" settlers. Date was taken from the docket. Docket notes, "given by Lt Colonel [Benjamin?] Shute, Capt Black and others."

Shute, Benjamin, fl. 1767-1801
Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799

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