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Bashaw Caramanli, Jusuf, fl. 1805-1811 Receipt of ransom for American prisoners [in Arabic with English translation]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.173 Author/Creator: Bashaw Caramanli, Jusuf, fl. 1805-1811 Place Written: Tripoli Type: Document Date: [1805] Pagination: 2 p. 21.5 x 10 cm Order a Copy

"We hereby acknowledge & have received from the hands of Col: Tobias Lear the full sum of sixty thousand dollars mentioned as Ransom for two hundred Americans, in the Treaty of Peace." Notation on second page: "Translation."

Bashaw Caramanli, Jusuf, fl. 1805-1811

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