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Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783 [Renting the estate of Isaac Gridley]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00019 Author/Creator: Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1 October 1772 Pagination: 2p. : docket : Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

As mortgagee of Gridley's estate, Thomas Flucker of Boston issues this official document renting out the estate to Admiral John Montagu for an annual sum of eighty pounds. Montagu was then Commander-in-Chief of the North American station. Flucker's original signature has been cut out but a later one appears in a note below the original. The document was signed in the presence of William Bennett and one other man (name illegible).

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783
Montagu, John, 1719-1795
Gridley, Isaac, 1703-?

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