RC (CtY); addressed “Mr. Coxe”; endorsed by Coxe. Not recorded in SJL.

Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, seven ranges of townships west of the Ohio River were to be laid out before any of these lands were sold. Impatient at the slow pace of the surveying, Congress voted on 21 Apr. 1787 to begin sales of land situated in the four ranges already surveyed at that point, the notes and plats for which had been received from Thomas Hutchins, geographer to the United States, earlier that year. Between 21 Sep. and 9 Oct. 1787, 72,934 acres of this land were sold in the sales made at New York. The surveying of the seven ranges was completed by 26 July 1788, but no further sales affecting them had occurred since then (Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends , ii 12–18, 24–25; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Public Lands, iii, 459; William D. Pattison, “The Survey of the Seven Ranges,” Ohio Historical Quarterly, lxviii [1959], 131n, 132, 134n, 137). See also Report on Boundaries with the Western Indians, 10 Mch. 1793.