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Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828 Request for information [incomplete]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04488 Author/Creator: Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph note signed Date: January 1790 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 6 cm, Width: 12.2 cm Order a Copy

Asks if the recipient would "be so obliging as to inform me what time Genl Green superceeded [sic] Genl. Gates - it seems necessity to accertain [sic] it in order to the settleg of my deceased brothers affair - " Date written in previously inferred and written in pencil.

Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828
Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

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