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Unknown [Receipt of salaries]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05770 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 3 January 1793 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 31.1 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

States that the members of the Department of War have received their full salaries. Signed by Philip Audebert, Benjamin Bankson, Constant Freeman, Nathan Jones, James B. Smith, Frederick Sprig, John Stagg Jr. and R. J. Vanden Brock. Date from docket.

Audebert, Philip, fl. 1788-1796
Bankson, Benjamin, fl. 1791-1792
Freeman, Constant, 1757-1824
Jones, Nathan, fl. 1790-1792
Smith, James B., fl. 1792
Sprig, Frederick, fl. 1792-1797
Stagg, John, Jr., 1758-1803
Vanden Brock, R. J., fl. 1789-1793

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