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Gomez, Daniel, 1695-1780 to Augustus Van Cortlandt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.511 Author/Creator: Gomez, Daniel, 1695-1780 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: April 13, 1772 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 17 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

States that a mortgage issued to him by Joseph Forbush is paid in full. Signed in text. Docket on verso, written by a New York City clerk, dated 1795. The house is said to still exist.

Gomez, Daniel, 1695-1780
Van Cortlandt, Augustus, 1728-1823
Forbush, Joseph, fl. 1772

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