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Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04005 Author/Creator: Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 October 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 20.3 x 15.8 cm. Order a Copy

Signed in text as "Mr. Bowdoin." Sends his compliments, and asks Knox who will pay the debt owed him by Thomas Flucker's estate (Flucker was Knox's late father-in-law).

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

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