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Stringer, Samuel (b. 1725) to William Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00465 Author/Creator: Stringer, Samuel (b. 1725) Place Written: Springfield, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 October 1776 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 30.7 x 19.4 cm. Order a Copy

Signed Philocles. Instructs Knox to deliver a letter with confidential content to a woman named Dilia. Possibly the same letter referred to a day earlier (see GLC02437.00461).

Stringer, Samuel, b. 1725
Knox, William, 1756-1795

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