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Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 [Book list and inventory]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10325 Author/Creator: Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Manuscript document Date: 30 March 1796 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 17.9 cm Order a Copy

Date inferred from a pencil note that states, "With letter of W Sargent 30 March 1796" (GLC02437.06682). Apparently continued from another page. Contains sections 3, 4, and 5, each referring to inventories of trunks or boxes. No. 3 is a book list indicating the number of copies of "More's France, Domestic Memoirs, Roman's Floridas, Stewarts political Economy, Franklin's polil Works... Principles of Taxation, Anderson's Institute's, Mirabeau's Portrait," and others. No. 4 notes uncataloged books and swords. No. 5 lists sconces and papers from the right and left hand side of the bookcase. Location inferred.

Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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