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circa 1750-1820
to unknown
Discusses a debt and other financial matters. Letter has been written over horizontally on the left side of the first page.
GLC02437.08135
[List]
Lists the names of the inhabitants of the people in the St. Georges Plantation and the amount of land they each possess.
GLC02437.08138
circa 3 September 1770-1806
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
[Announcement]
Discusses grain.
GLC02437.08141
circa 1789-1806
[Thoughts on the government]
Discusses his opinion on how the government should govern the territories: "every regulation which can be formed will operate, in the opinion of the unboundily [sic] avaricious as so many acts of tyranny which he has a right to [treat], therefore...
GLC02437.08142
circa 1781-1794
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
[Resignation]
Resignation of a Captain Freeman, possibly Constant Freeman, from the Army and a request to not receive the "half pay granted by Congress." Appears to be written in Samuel Shaw's hand.
GLC02437.08145
circa 1791-1795
[Posts from Lake Erie to the Ohio]
Discusses the disadvantages to establishing a chain of posts from Lake Erie to the Ohio region. Includes troop calculations on the last page.
GLC02437.08146
circa 1783-1795
[Thoughts on the Army and government] [incomplete]
Discusses how military power should be wielded in a republic. Written on an old address leaf.
GLC02437.08150
1791
[Thoughts on Georgia's right to negotiate with Native Americans] [incomplete]
Discusses issues in Georgia with the Creek Indians. Estimates $1,152,836 as the cost of the campaign, with troops for three years. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.
GLC02437.08152
circa 1784-1806
[Plan for selling land]
Discusses different methods to sell land.
GLC02437.08153
circa 28 October 1785-1795
Tatham, William, 1752-1819
[Request]
Says he will shortly be able to provide the War Office with "a good general Draft, accompanied with pretty accurate Details of most parts of the Union." Written in the third person and signed in text.
GLC02437.08155
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