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Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 [Payment for attendance at New Jersey Assembly]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03151 Author/Creator: Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 11 June 1791 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 10 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Witherspoon signed twice, once in text and once in the endorsement on the verso. Countersigned by Robert Pettett Jones and John Beatty. Certifies payment of 16 pounds, 16 shillings for Witherspoon's attendance for 28 days as a member of the assembly of Somerset County, New Jersey.

Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
Beatty, John, 1749-1826
Jones, Robert Pettett, fl. 1791

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