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- GLC#
- GLC01450.008.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- July 31, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804
- Title
- to Joseph Clarke
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket : address Height: 24 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Transmits through the Treasury Board the Continental Loan Office certificates. Hillegas gives amounts of each and instructions on numbering them. The total of all the certificates comes to $354,000. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Hillegas was the Treasurer of the United States. He signed as Continental Treasurer. Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.
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