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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08704 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 27 July 1796 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.1 x 19 cm. Order a Copy

List of items wanted for a frigate, including spruce spars, booms, mizzen yards, poles and others. Noted as written in the Navy yard.

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