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Unknown to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09862 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Billerica, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript letter Date: 20 May 1799 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 19.7 x 17.6 cm. Order a Copy

Writes to his uncle, Henry Knox, with a list of bills that were not paid from his last school term along with his upcoming expenses for the next school term. Letter is not signed but is likely written from either Francis or Thomas Flucker.

Flucker, George Francis Waldo, fl. 1796-1801
Flucker, Thomas, fl. 1796-1801
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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