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- GLC#
- GLC01450.505-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1 March 1764
- Author/Creator
- Rivera, Jacob Rodriguez, 1717-1789
- Title
- [Statement for 1087 Pounds 10s.1p owed Jacob Rodriguez Rivera]
- Place Written
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 20 cm, Width: 31 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Statement, mostly for candles, but also for paper products. Candles are for a lodge, most likely Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United States, though it is not named. Rivera belonged to Touro Synagogue. Thomas Vernon, another Rhode Island merchant, is also involved in the account.
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