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Livingston, Robert "An account of the men & Transports which were lost and Castaway in . . .

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00888 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Manuscript document Date: 1711/08/23 Pagination: 1p. + docket 30.6 x 19.3 cm Order a Copy

. . . Canada River the 23 day of August 1711 in a Violent Storm."

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