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Bailey, Jacob, 1731-1808 Various notes and memos

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02669.015 Author/Creator: Bailey, Jacob, 1731-1808 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: 10 October 1808 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 26.6 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy

A document, possibly scratch paper, with various messages and dates, including a note is on absentees at a milita gathering, a poem, a child's note reading, "Daddy do not be discouraged," mathmatical equations, and repetative writings of various names.

Harmound, Samuel, fl. 1808
Wharf, Nathanial, fl. 1808
Wittam, Samuel, fl. 1808
Marchant, Jaler, fl. 1808
Bailey, Martha, fl. 1808
Bailey, Hannah, fl. 1808-1813

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