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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.10630
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0001] 1660-1743 
Title Contract between Thomas Smith and Benjamin Alder
Date 4 November 1719
Author Smith, Thomas (fl. 1719)  
Document Type Legal document; Land transaction document; Business and financial document
Content Description Signed by Benjamin Alder. John Coney and John [Lavell] Junior signed as witnesses. Anthony Roddard signed as Justice of the Peace on 5 May 1722 at Boston, Massachusetts. Contract between Thomas Smith and Benjamin Alder. Involving a tract of land called Muscongus (in present-day in Maine) and part of some islands located in eastern New England be sold to Alder from Smith. Terms and conditions of the contract are included.
Subjects Muscongus Patent  Land Transaction  Contract  Waldo Patent  
People Alder, Benjamin (fl. 1719)  Smith, Thomas (fl. 1719)  
Theme Agriculture; Merchants & Commerce; Law
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859