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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Alexander Fullerton

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03230 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 7 January 1786 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 18.7 cm Order a Copy

Clerical copy of GLC02437.03231, written in the hand of Samuel Shaw with clerical signatures of Knox and Samuel Ogden, both in Shaw's hand. Note written regarding Samuel Shaw, who is the "defendant in an action brought against him by Mr. John Holber, in Philadelphia." Requests that Mr. Fullerton take over Shaw's bail from Mr. Robert Morris, with the guarantee that the money will be repaid by Ogden and Knox to Fullerton and anyone who helps Fullerton acquire the money.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Fullerton, Alexander, fl. 1785-1787
Holber, John, fl. 1785

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