Petition for Grants, 1751

Bound (or once bound) volumes or notebooks of records, cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, 1640-1824 of correspondence, accounts, claims and other papers; petitions for grants 1751-1818; deeds, miscellaneous undated papers, bills and receipts 1752-1804; printed grants 1810-1816; votes and witnesses 1751-1792; printed material; indexes; maps and plans; fragments. The content of this collection pre and postdates the period of the company’s operation (1749-1816). It should be noted, references appear throughout the collection to volumes not held at the Maine Historical Society, and in some cases not known to be in existence, most notably, volumes one and two of the bound grant series, pre-1771 (see Coll. 60, vol. 11 thru vol. 14).