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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Request for goods]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02480 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 7 September 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 7.8 x 23.1 cm. Order a Copy

Request for fifteen pounds of beef for Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Jacob Johnson.

Johnson, Jacob, fl. 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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