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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Agreement between Shaw and Randall, and George Bell & Company]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05248 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Ostend, Belgium Type: Manuscript document Date: 28 November 1791 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Docket identifies document as a copy. Date, title and location added in a different hand. Agreement outlines a business transaction between the firm of [Samuel] Shaw and [Thomas] Randall, and George Bell & Company of Ostend, Flanders (he spells it "Ostende;" present-day Belgium). Bell's firm will apparently sell teas and other merchandise of Shaw and Randall's. Signatures of Shaw and Bell witnessed by Joseph Bell and George Irving. See GLC02437.05248 for further information.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Bell, George, fl. 1791-1795
Randall, Thomas, ?-1811

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