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Haynes, Samuel, fl. 1783 to Mr. Baker and Blow

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.111 Author/Creator: Haynes, Samuel, fl. 1783 Place Written: Edenton, [North Carolina] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: October 15, 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Addressed to Mr. Baker and Blow, merchants, South Quay, Virginia. Encloses a certificate from the Auditor's office for eight hundred seventy-nine pounds, eleven shillings, four pence for rum. Discusses the appraisal value of the rum. Requests that Baker and Blow inform the assembly that he is waiting at his expense to get paid for the shipments, having come over from his home in St. Croix, the West Indies. Hopes they will order payment soon with interest.

Haynes, Samuel, fl. 1783

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