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Unknown Receipt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08576 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: [London, England] Type: Manuscript document signed Date: April 1785 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 8.3 x 18.7 cm. Order a Copy

Freight receipt from Webber and Co. to Captain John Young. Noted on the bottom that the money for the account was received by James Swan of "Heny Jackson Esqr."

Webber, James, fl. 1783-1785
Swan, James, 1754-1830
Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

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