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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01774 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: circa January-September 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 9.8 cm, Width: 17.5 cm Order a Copy

Date added later in blue pencil. "Please to issue the allowance of Rum for five servants without arms in General Knox's family (or if you have no rum an equivalent in spirit) for the present month of January 1783. and charge the same to the General's account." Note on verso signed by Jacob Hespe.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Hespe, Jacob, fl. 1783

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