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Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799 [Thomas Goldthwait's June lease]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09073 Author/Creator: Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: February 17, 1772 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Documents a lease of land negotiated by Thomas Goldthwait between the heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo on the one part, and [possibly his son] Thomas Goldthwait Jr. Signed by Thomas Goldthwait and Thomas Goldthwait Jr., as well as by Jonathan [Lowder] and Francis Archbald, Jr. as witnesses (though all signatures are in the same hand).

Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799
Goldthwait, Thomas, Jr., 1750-1818
Archbald, Francis, 1750-1779
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783
Winslow, Isaac, 1709-1777
Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759

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