Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Benjamin Lincoln
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03047 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: August 1784 Pagination: 1 p. ; 23 x 18.8 cm. Order a Copy
Later copy. Writes, "You must probably have been informed of being chosen with Mr Partridge and myself to examine the encroachments of the british on the eastern line of this State, and to endeavor to form some compromise with the Penobscot Indians respecting the lands which they now occupy- Will you accept the commission?" Possibly written at Massachusetts.
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