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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.208 Author/Creator: Place Written: [Mecklenburg County, North Carolina] Type: Document signed Date: circa 1777 Pagination: 1 p. ; 36.9 x 24.4 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by Abraham Alexander, Hezekiah Alexander, David Reese, Eph. Brisard, William Wilson, Edward Giles and John M. Alexander. Records eleven deeds dated 1772-1777. Place of writ inferred from several co-signers' participation in the signing of the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Declaration of Independence, 1775.

Alexander, Hezekiah, 1728-1801
Reese, David, 1710-1787
Alexander, Abraham, 1717-1786
Brisard, Ephram, fl. 1777
Wilson, William, fl. 1772-1777
Giles, Edward, fl. 1777-1818
Alexander, John McKnitt, 1733-1817

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