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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Sheldon, Isaac Sale of 1/2 of the iron works at Canaan to Daniel Lawrance

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.02749 Author/Creator: Sheldon, Isaac Place Written: Connecticut Type: Document signed Date: 1748/11/22 Pagination: 2p. 30 x 18.9 cm Order a Copy

On p.2, ANS by John Hutchinson, Town Clerk, acknowledging the document to be a true copy in the Salisbury records, dated 27 March 1764. Docketed on verso.

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