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Spear, Gersham, fl. 1777 [Receipt for 200 barrel hoops]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.412.10 Author/Creator: Spear, Gersham, fl. 1777 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 6 September 1777 Pagination: Order a Copy

Needed for the making of powder barrels during the American Revolution, priced at six shillings per hundred hoops. With a signed (with a mark) note indicating Thomas Frace received the hoops from the commissary, Samuel Hodgdon.

Spear, Gersham, fl. 1777
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

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