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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Issue of twenty pounds of beef]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02331 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 25 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 7 x 17.5 cm Order a Copy

Order to issue twenty pounds of beef for General Knox.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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