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Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833 [Receipt for money owed to John G. Blount by North Carolina]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02450.02 Author/Creator: Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833 Place Written: New Bern, North Carolina Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1770/12/17 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 20.5 x 19 cm. Order a Copy

Countersigned by John Clitherall. Expenses billed to the "Publick of North Carolina" include costs of delivering proclamations discontinuing assemblies in various counties and costs for transporting a suspected counterfeiter named James Mansfield.

Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833
Clitherall, John, fl. 1770

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