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Grégoire, Marie-Thérèse de, 1733-1811 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03515 Author/Creator: Grégoire, Marie-Thérèse de, 1733-1811 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript letter signed Date: April 8, 1787 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 18.7 cm Order a Copy

Forwards a letter of recommendation from the Marquis de Lafayette, and asks Knox for help in her claim of "a tract of Land Laying at the Eastward with the Island of Mount Desert," in what is now Maine.

Grégoire, Marie-Thérèse de, ?-1811
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
The New Nation, 1783-1815
France
Letter of Introduction or Recommendation
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Women of the Founding Era
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