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Binding the Nation : Expanding Nation : Letters from the Territories : Louisiana Purchase Territory Letter

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Louisiana Purchase Territory Letter


Wilderness, Kentucky
Nov. 16, 1783

Dear Mother

I was the other day offered a location of fifteen hundred acres ground for my little Sorrel Mare which is about twenty miles from this place.

—William Breckenridge


Courtesy of Breckenridge Family Papers, Library of Congress












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