Valuable Lands
Document 1795Someone has been marking public land, in an attempt to make a claim on it. Meigs alerts Sargent to this illegal act.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
Someone has been marking public land, in an attempt to make a claim on it. Meigs alerts Sargent to this illegal act.
Date
08/23/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Marietta
Document number
1795082390001
Page start
1
Note
Fragments missing from document.
Endorsed by Pickering.]
Notable persons
Winthrop Sargent
Return Jonathan Meigs
savages
Secretary of the Northwestern Territory
Notable locations
Marietta
Virginia
territory
Miskingum River
Ohio River
Notable items
cutting and blazing trees
appropriations of land
public land
right of preemption
prohibitions
boundaries
treaty