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Court case between Jacob Stout and Charles Bruce

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.04506 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York, New York Type: Document Date: 1808/06 Pagination: 1p. : docket : Height: 34.2 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy

Jacob Stout, plaintiff, and his attorney Walter Patterson brought the defendant Charles Bruce to the Mayor's Court for failing to pay a debt to Stout.

Stout, Jacob, fl. 1808
Patterson, Walter, fl. 1793-1823
Bruce, Charles, fl. 1808

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