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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.10633
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0001] 1660-1743 
Title Indenture contract concerning the Muscongus patent
Date 12 December 1737
Author Phips, Spencer (1685-1757)  
Document Type Legal document; Land transaction document; Business and financial document
Content Description Signed by various parties on the last two pages. A long detailed indenture contract between Spencer Phipps, Elisha Cook, John and Sarah Phips, Dame Jane Cook (guardian of Mary Cook), Nathaniel Hubbard, Frances Brinley, Samuel Waldo, and various others. Appears to involve the Muscongus Patent (located in present-day Maine). Terms and conditions of the contract are included. A portion of the document is missing, causing text loss.
Subjects Muscongus Patent  Land Transaction  Contract  Women's History  Waldo Patent  
People Phips, Spencer (1685-1757)  Waldo, Samuel (1695-1759)  
Theme Agriculture; Merchants & Commerce; Law; Women in American History; Children & Family
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859