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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Provision order]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02558 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 23 September 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 7.7 cm, Width: 17.8 cm Order a Copy

Request for twelve pounds of bread for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Samuel Shaw.

Johnson, Jacob, fl. 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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