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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to Samuel Parkman

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04770 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: 4 November 1790 Pagination: 1 p. ; 19.5 x 20.2 cm. Order a Copy

Receipt to Exchequer from businessmen Shaw and Randall noting second payment, "first not paid" of $258.47 to Secretary of War Henry Knox.

Parkman, Samuel, 1752-1824
Randall, Thomas, ?-1811
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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