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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 [Reciept for Benjamin Franklin]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02324 Author/Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph document signed Date: 24 April 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 21 x 21 cm. Order a Copy

Receiving twelve bills of exchange from Charles Pettit drawn by Francis Hopkinson on Benjamin Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiary to France. These total nine thousand eight hundred dollars, which the government had given him. Written at the Office of Finance.

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806
Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

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