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- GLC#
- GLC01450.253-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 20 March 1748
- Author/Creator
- Greene, William, 1696-1758
- Title
- [Receipt for branding iron]
- Place Written
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 9.7 cm, Width: 12.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Patrick Chambers signs, acknowledging that payment was made "for making & Cutting a Branding Iron for Sealing Measures for the Colony of Rhode Island." Greene, Governor of Rhode Island, orders Thomas Richardson, Rhode Island Treasurer, to pay Edward Thurston (possibly the creator of the iron) three pounds from the General Treasury.
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