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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05307-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 15, 1792
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Was disappointed not to have received word from Knox on how to proceed with their canal project. Is waiting to put their plans into action. Discusses a new company, led by a Colonel Worthington, which is being formed to cut a canal in the Connecticut River. Talks about the legislature's meetings to discuss the land purchases in the Waldo patent in Maine. Relates a conversation he had with Isaac Winslow about the patent lands; Winslow writes that he is in no "hurry to settle." Provides information on land deals with several others, including Mr. [Richard] Soderstrom and Mr. [William] Tudor.
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