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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to the Warren Selectmen

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09154 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Thomaston, Maine Type: Manuscript letter signed Date: 26 August 1786 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Knox and Isaac Winslow Jr., though both signatures, as well as the letter's content, are in Knox's hand. Document serves as an agreement between Winslow and Knox on the one part (as legal heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo), and the inhabitants of Warren on the other part, regarding value and of land in that portion of the Waldo patent.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Winslow, Isaac, 1763-1806
Winslow, Isaac, 1709-1777
Winslow, Lucy, 1724-1768
Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759
Waldo, Francis, fl. 1728-1784
Flucker, Hannah, 1726-1785
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

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