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Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 [Certificate concerning a loan]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00799 Author/Creator: Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 Place Written: Rhode Island Type: Printed document signed Date: January 21, 1780 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 9.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Countersigned by Joseph Clarke, Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in the State of Rhode Island. States, "At thirty days sight of the second bill, first, third and fourth not paid, pay to Benjamin Williams or order, twelve dollars, in sixty tournois, for interest due on money borrowed by the United States." Directed to "the Commissioner or Commissioners of the United States of America at Paris." Docket indicates that the amount is to be paid to William Knox.

Clarke, Joseph, 1719-1792
Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791
Knox, William, 1756-1795

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