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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Promissory note between Bradshaw and Samuel Waldo]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09460 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: 20 August 1739 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 17.5 cm, Width: 18.4 cm Order a Copy

Bradshaw promises to pay Samuel Waldo ten pounds in "well made, hard-burnt merchantable bricks" to be delivered at Waldo's house in Boston on or before 30 October [1739]. Also signed by Samuel Whittemore.

Bradshaw, Samuel, fl. 1739
Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759

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