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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.07593 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0146] June-August 1801 |
| Title | Thurston Whiting to Henry Knox about meetings with settlers about surveying and their anger |
| Date | 28 August 1801 |
| Author | Whiting, Thurston (1753-1829) |
| Additional authors | Brackett, Benjamin (fl. 1801) |
| Recipient | Knox, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Land transaction document |
| Content Description | Describes a meetings they had with the settlers in various towns in Maine regarding the surveying. Regretfully informs Knox that the settlers were not responsive to what they had to say. States the settlers are determined to prevent the survey on Knox's patent (likely the Waldo) and on the Plymouth Company Says the settlers further warns Knox not to send any more surveyors out. Written from Davistown, Maine which is possibly present day Liberty, Maine. |
| Subjects | Waldo Patent Landlord and Tenant Boundary or Property Dispute Mobs and Riots Rebellion Surveying Prisoner |
| People | Whiting, Thurston (1753-1829) Brackett, Benjamin (fl. 1801) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Place written | Liberty, Maine |
| Theme | Law; Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |