Lynch, Thomas (1749-1779) Receipt for 50 pounds
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04815 Author/Creator: Lynch, Thomas (1749-1779) Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Document signed Date: 22 August 1775 Pagination: 1 p. ; 17.3 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy
Partially printed. Provided by South Carolina as legal compensation for an executed slave belonging to Lynch's father, Thomas Sr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr., was a member of Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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RECEIVED CharlesTown August 22nd. 1775 of Thomas Farr, jun. Esq; Clerk of the Commons House of Assembly of the Colony of South-Carolina, One -
Certificate, numbered 1246 -
amounting to Fifty Pound Currency -
£. 50
s. -
d. -
signed by him, by Order of the said House, being the Amount
of my Demands against the Publick, as audited to December 31st, 1774.
For my Father Thomas Lynch Esq. being somuch provided for a Negro Executed.
Thomas Lynch Junr.
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