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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Shaw & Thomas Randall

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04885 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter Date: 21 March 1791 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Thanks Randall for the extension (see GLC02437.04882) he received. Writes, "I have nothing of Mr. D's by which I could secure you..." Notes he owed considerable sum of money from land.

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

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