Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Document authorizing payment to Alexander Parker (c/s John Nicholson)
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00184.11 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Document signed Date: 18 June 1786 Pagination: 2 p. ; 17 x 21 cm Order a Copy
Signed by Franklin as President of the Pennsylvania Executive Council. Docket and receipt penned on verso, with latter signed by Stephen Duncan.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
In Council
Philadelpia
Sir,
Pay to Alexander Parker Late Captain
_______________ of the Pennsylvania Line, or his order the sum of thirty six pounds and three pence __________ being (stuck) two year's interest of his depreciation certificate, due the tenth day of April 1786 agreeably to an act of The General Assembly, intitled, " An act to appropriate certain monies arfying from the excife, for " the payment of the annual interest due on unalienated therein "mentioned" passed the twenty-first day of March 1783, (stuck) and one other Act dated the 25th of March 1783, and out of the fund appropriated by the faid act for the purpose therein mentioned.
To DAVID RITTENHOUSE, Esquire
Treasurer
B Franklin
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