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Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824 to John Bryant

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03432.069 Author/Creator: Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 July 1797 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 34 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Requests Bryant ships 1,463 24-pound cannon balls to Henry Jackson in Boston, Massachusetts, the agent "for the Frigate building there for the United States" (USS Constitution). Bryant is to take triplicate receipts.

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
Bryant, John, 1742-1816

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