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The United States of America for Sundry expenditures from the 10th Sept 1789, to the 1st of March

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04523 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: 9 March 1790 - 21 November 1792 Pagination: 8 p. : docket ; Height: 32.8 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Lists transactions for the account of Joseph Howell Junior, Paymaster General, by name and date. Includes amounts. Noted as written in the Auditors Office and the Pay office in New York City. Countersigned as a true copy by Joseph Nourse [?].

Nowise, Joseph, fl. 1786-1792
Howell, Joseph, 1750-1798

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