Colonial boundary disputes collection, 1735-1744.

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Colonial boundary disputes collection, 1735-1744.

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A group of documents relating to boundary disputes, chiefly those stemming from the New Hampshire grants. Included are: a copy of the Privy Council's verdict in the dispute between Samuel Waldo and David Dunbar (ca. 1735), the 85th Instruction of George II to Benning Wentworth (1740); letter to the editor of The New Hampshire Gazette responding to "the political piece in your Gazette of 5th Current upon the subject of the aggrieved and injured settlers of the towns granted by your Governor to the west of the Connecticut river;" and six documents accumulated by John Adams after the Massachusetts General Court appointed him to investigate the disputes in March 1774.

9 pieces, in a case.

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Adams, John, 1735-1826

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Dunbar, David, Surveyor General

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Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods in America. From the description of Licensing document, 1730. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70976088 ...

George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760

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Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759

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Great Britain. Privy Council

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