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Duer, William, 1747-1799 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03386 Author/Creator: Duer, William, 1747-1799 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 December 1786 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 18.4 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy

Writes that Knox's "note becomes due this day" but the man from the Bank has not "called with it, prevented I suppose by the weather- of course I can not send it to you till Monday- I now send you one hundred and Seventy seven Dollars in Bank Paper." Declares that he will send the balance Monday.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Duer, William, 1747-1799

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