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Hand, Edward, 1744-1802 [Request for provisions]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02618 Author/Creator: Hand, Edward, 1744-1802 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 3 October 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 13.4 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy

Issues ten days' worth of provisions to a man in the New York line. Signed as received on the verso by John Habermeyer.

Hand, Edward, 1744-1802
Habermeyer, John, fl. 1783

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