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Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804 to Joseph Clarke

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.008.06 Author/Creator: Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804 Place Written: York-Town, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: March 24, 1778 Pagination: 1 p. : docket : address Height: 30 cm, Width: 18.5 cm Order a Copy

Hillegas states that he is transmitting from the Treasury Board to Clarke Continental Loan Office certificates amounting to $521,000 escorted by Mr. Norton Brailsford and William Dodd. He reports that he sent $21,000 in certificates from Baltimore last summer when the Treasury Board was in Philadelphia, but they were returned so he is sending them again. He asks Clarke to give bearers duplicate receipts to bring back, and details amounts of each certificate and how they should be numbered. Docketed received April 7, 1778. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Hillegas was the Treasurer of the United States, and Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804
Clarke, Joseph, 1719-1792
Brailsford, Norton, fl. 1778
Dodd, William, fl. 1778

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