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Brown & Morgan, fl. 1779 [Receipt for tea and sugar]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08696.02 Author/Creator: Brown & Morgan, fl. 1779 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Document Date: 1779/10/25 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 9.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Attests to receipt of two half chests of tea and one barrel of sugar by Greenbury Dorsey, possibly Greensbury Dorsey (d. 1807) of Huntington County, Pennsylvania.

Brown & Morgan, fl. 1779
Dorsey, Greensbury, ?-1807

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