Letter to Edward Telfair and John Milton, 1790 Jan. 13.

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Letter to Edward Telfair and John Milton, 1790 Jan. 13.

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The collection consists of a letter to Edward Telfair, Georgia Governor and John Milton, Secretary of State, from Zachariah Cox, dated January 13, 1790 regarding the Tennessee Land Company. The letter certifies that Stephen Heard, William Downs, Henry Candler, John F. Gardner, Daniel Gaines, Middleton Woods, William Cox, and Thomas Carr are associates in the Tennessee Land Company, an investment company which purchased Yazoo land.

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Telfair, Edward, 1735-1807

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Edward Telfair (1735 – September 17, 1807) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father and politician who served as the Governor of the state of Georgia between 1786 and 1787, and again from 1790 through 1793. He was a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Born on his family's ancestral estate in western Scotland, Telfair graduated from the Kirkcudbright Grammar School before acquiring commercial training. He immigrated to America in 175...

Milton, John, d. 1824.

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Tennessee Land Company.

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Cox, Zachariah

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Zachariah Cox, land speculator, involved in the Tennessee Land Company which purchased 4,000,000 acres of land in the region of Tennessee as part of the Yazoo land purchase in 1790. From the description of Letter to Edward Telfair and John Milton, 1790 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478024 Zachariah Cox of Montgomery County, Georgia, was an associate of Zachariah Cox and Company, also known as the Tennessee Company, and of the Georgia Company (both Yazoo companies...