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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Indenture

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08053 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 2 January 1807 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 21.9 cm Order a Copy

Indenture between Lucy Knox, as "widow and executrix" of Henry Knox's estate, and Thomas Vose. Agreement relates to the Knox limeworks; apparently Lucy agrees to let Vose use the limeworks and manufacture and sell a particular portion of the lime. Signed by Lucy Knox and Thomas Vose, as well as by Ebenezer Thatcher and [Henry Jackson] Knox as witnesses.

Vose, Thomas, 1753-1810
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Knox, Henry Jackson, 1780-1832
Thatcher, Ebenezer, 1778-1841

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