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Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791) [Pay order]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00873 Author/Creator: Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791) Place Written: Connecticut Type: Printed document signed Date: 11 January 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 8 x 21.4 cm. Order a Copy

"At Thirty Days Sight of this Second Bill, First, Third and Fourth not paid, pay to Dudley Woodbridge Jun. or Order, Twelve Dollars, in Sixty Livres Tournois, for Interest due on Money borrowed by the United States." Countersigned by the Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in Connecticut, William Finlay.

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791
Finlay, William, fl. 1781-1789
Woodbridge, Dudley, 1747-1823

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