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Fowle, Daniel, 1715-1787 [Agreement of purchase]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08313 Author/Creator: Fowle, Daniel, 1715-1787 Place Written: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Type: Manuscript document signed Date: February 22 - March 5, 1773 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 15.9 cm Order a Copy

States that he has received from Robert Luist Fowle a printing press, a set of type face, and other items which Robert Fowle had bought from him in August of 1764. Includes a note on the verso signed and dated Boston 5 March by Robert Fowle asking to have some items delivered to Thomas Flucker.

Fowle, Daniel, 1715-1787
Fowle, Robert Luist, 1743-1802
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

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