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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.07332 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0141] September-December 1799 |
| Title | Certificate for a deed of land |
| Date | 30 November 1799 |
| Author | Bradford, Joseph N. (fl. 1799) |
| Document Type | Land transaction document; Legal document |
| Content Description | A certificate certifying that Bradford tendered to Henry Knox a deed of land "lying in the county of Hankock and State of Massachusetts...by a certain agreement made with James Swan." The price was $2 an acre. At the bottom of the document it reads, "the subscriber cannot pronounce as to the validity of the deed nor the right of Mr. Swan to give such a deed.-He cannot accept it - nor pay the fifty thousand dollars." |
| Subjects | Land Transaction Contract Finance |
| People | Bradford, Joseph (fl. 1799) Swan, Hepzibah Clarke (1757-1825) Swan, James (1754-1831) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Place written | Thomaston, Maine |
| Theme | Law |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |