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Livingston, Robert "Memorandum about Harwoods Businesses"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00250 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Manuscript document Date: 1694/03/30 Pagination: 2 p. 29.5 x 19.3 cm Order a Copy

Livingston discusses the rationales for why he does business with Messrs. Harwood and Meriwether, including why he has such confidence in their propriety. Apparantly the Harwood/Meriwether consortium was being sued and Livingston wrote these lines in a form of depositional testimony. Docketed on verso.

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