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Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 [Henry Jackson Knox's grammar school tuition bill]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05062 Author/Creator: Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 12 July 1791 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 29.3 cm, Width: 19.4 cm Order a Copy

Tuition bill for the summer session written and signed by Princeton College President and Declaration of Independence signer Jonathan Witherspoon. Henry Jackson Knox, Henry Knox's son, was charged £1.0.0 "To his Entry," £3.15.0 "To Tuition for the Summer Session," and £0.2.6 "To the School Servant." Reports that the rule of the school and college is to have the tuition paid in advance, so he has drawn on Knox for £4.17.6. Has no doubt "that you will pay it after being informed that the Grammar School belongs properly to me." The board and other expenses are to go to Dr. [Samuel Stanhope] Smith. Knox noted in the docket that the tuition was "paid."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
Knox, Henry Jackson, 1780-1832

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