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The Canadian view of the Alaskan boundary dispute
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Colonial boundary disputes collection
Manuscripts
A collection of nine documents concerning the "New Hampshire Grants" assembled by John Adams for his report on the boundary disputes commissioned by the Massachusetts General Court on March 1774. Included are copies of the act of the Privy Council settling the dispute between Samuel Waldo and David Dunbar (approximately 1735) and the Instruction of George II to Benning Wentworth (approximately 1740); also present is a 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." Some items are in John Adams's hand, including copies of documents endorsed as "Charles Phelps's State of his Case" and "New York Claim."
mssHM 8970-8978
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[View of a wilderness landscape]
Visual Materials
Vertical landscape view of a wilderness scene with a pine tree and stream in the foreground and mountains in the distance, possibly Estes Park, Colorado.
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