Paca, William Receipt for payment by Thomas Harwood
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00184.36 Author/Creator: Paca, William Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Autograph document signed Date: 21 April 1789 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 28.7 x 20.6 cm. Order a Copy
[Title continued] of the sum 333 pounds 6s., or two-thirds of the money due on a tract of land known as Paca's Forest.
Tho this 21 [struck] Day of April [illegible] of Thomas Harwood Esqr. the treasurer for the [illegible] hundred & thirty three pounds in Shillings [illegible] Pence Current Money bein the two thirds of the value a [illegile] Land called Para's Forest which was of [illegible] by him: which two thirds was granted by [struck] Lopes lature to Mary [illegible] other daughter Elizabeth Topping - the aid sum of honor renewed by [illegible for this use [illegible] aid.
Wm. Paca
[illegible]
21st April 1789
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