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- GLC#
- GLC02480.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1805/11/07
- Author/Creator
- Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819
- Title
- to [Charles Willing Hare]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 20 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Addressed to "C.W. Hear." Acknowledges receipt of a notice to vacate a lot he had leased from William Bingham and agrees to vacate the property by May 1, 1806. American inventor Oliver Evans is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine as well as other steam-driven machines. Bingham, former Continental Congressman and U.S. senator, had died the previous year. Hare was Bingham's nephew and lawyer.
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