1To John Adams from Joseph Barrell, 30 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
The Subscribers Directors of a Company called the New England Mississippi Land Company beg leave humbly to represent, That the Congress of the United States having by Law authorized the President to appoint Commissioners to settle all interfering Claims of the United States, and the State of Georgia, to Territory situated West of the River Chatahouchee North of the thirty first Degree of North...