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- GLC#
- GLC01366
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- circa 1840
- Title
- Articles of the Roxborough Express Horse Company
- Place Written
- Roxborough, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 47.1 cm, Width: 32.7 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Contains 19 articles discussing the organization and function of the Roxborough Express Horse Company, including appointment of officers and responsibilities of members. Outlines the purpose of the company: "recovering Horses stolen within our District, and detecting and prosecuting the Thieves." Contains an illustration of two men on horseback shooting at another man on horseback, presumably a horse thief, at the top of the page. A previous assessment of this document estimated the date of creation to be 1840. Has a patterned border.
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