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Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 [Legal document created by a committee of the Rhode Island General assembly]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01412.64.02 Author/Creator: Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 Place Written: Providence, Rhode Island Type: Autograph document signed Date: 8 June 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 17 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by Hopkins, former Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, as deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. Cosigned by committee member John Jenckes. Order to pay Job Greene one hundred and thirteen pounds and five shillings. Endorsed by John Warner on behalf of Job Greene on verso. Joseph Clarke was state treasurer of Rhode Island for forty years.

Clarke, Joseph, 1719-1792
Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802
Jenckes, John, fl. 1742-1781
Warner, John, fl. 1781
Greene, Job, fl. 1771-1781

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