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Lee & Perkins, fl. 1775 [Note for Henry Knox]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08378 Author/Creator: Lee & Perkins, fl. 1775 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript document Date: 11 March 1775 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 9.9 x 15.4 cm. Order a Copy

Lee and Perkins, merchants in Dartmouth, promise to pay Knox £13.16.11 on demand with interest. Docket on verso is signed by Knox and dated 11 October 1790. Knox was asking that they pay his agent, Joseph Peirce, on order.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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