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Fisher, Hendrick, 1697-1779 [Receipt for sixty pounds and six shillings]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02503.09 Author/Creator: Fisher, Hendrick, 1697-1779 Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1776/07/30 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 11 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Received from John Dumis. Fisher receives the money "as a Commissioner" from New Jersey and promises "to account to the Congress for the same."

Fisher, Hendrick, 1697-1779

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