Valuable Lands
Item
Type
Letter Signed
Title
Valuable Lands
Description
Someone has been marking public land, in an attempt to make a claim on it. Meigs alerts Sargent to this illegal act.
short description
Valuable Lands
year created
1795
month created
08
day created
23
author
sent from location
Marietta
recipient
in collection
note
Fragments missing from document.
Endorsed by Pickering.]
Endorsed by Pickering.]
notable person/group
Winthrop Sargent
Return Jonathan Meigs
savages
Secretary of the Northwestern Territory
notable location
Marietta
Virginia
territory
Miskingum River
Ohio River
notable item/thing
cutting and blazing trees
appropriations of land
public land
right of preemption
prohibitions
boundaries
treaty
notable phrase
adjacent counties of Virginia
document number
1795082390001
page start
1
number of pages
3
Item sets
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | ZOF08 (3 pages) | Collection: Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94) | [unknown] |
| [view document] (2 pages) | ZOF08a (2 pages) | Collection: Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94) | [unknown] |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Return Jonathan Meigs | Marietta | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Winthrop Sargent | [unknown] | [n/a] |