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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.10313 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0124] October-December 1794 |
| Title | Thomas Burkmar to Henry Knox about Ducktrap plantation |
| Date | 13 October 1794 |
| Author | Burkmar, Thomas (fl. 1771-1803) |
| Additional authors | Nesmith, James Prescott, Samuel Pitchene, George Puyeott, So |
| Recipient | Knox, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Land transaction document |
| Content Description | Discusses Knox's division of the Ducktrap plantation and "beg[s] leave to acquiant [sic] you that we the said Subscribers would wish to have the said division incoporated into a Town and we would further respecfully intimate to you that it is the wish of the Major part of the said settlers that it be conporated by the name (Knoxtown) and flatter ourselves if it is agreeable to you that the General Court can have no objection to grant our request ... " Goes on to say that they will wait for Knox's answer before bringing a petition to the General Court. Noted in a postscript at the bottom that all agreed except a man named Ely, "who we are so unfortunate as to have within our settlement... " Also signed by John Clark, Michal Relton, Thomas Burkmar Jr., David Miller, Willian Knowlton, Hezekiah Flanders, Jo___ Burkmar, R___ Knowlton, Thomas Knowlton, John Harvey, John Beatty, John Briddock. Noted place of writ as "Little River in the Plantation of Ducktrap," Massachusetts, which is now present day Lincolnville, Maine. Watermarked. |
| Subjects | Land Transaction Landlord and Tenant Waldo Patent Immigration and Migration Boundary or Property Dispute Rebellion Agriculture and Animal Husbandry |
| People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Burkmar, Thomas (fl. 1771-1803) |
| Place written | Lincolnville, Maine |
| Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture; Law |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |