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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to the inhabitants

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09205 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter Date: October 1788 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm Order a Copy

Letter is not signed but appears to be in Knox's handwriting. Writes a letter to the inhabitants of Canaan, Maine assuring them that the agreement they made with [likely Henry Knox, Isaac Winslow, and Samuel Winslow] will be a great advantage to them and their children. Notes they have no objections to the people petitioning the General Court becuase they [likely Waldo and/or Winslow] are acting within the law.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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