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- GLC#
- GLC03434.69-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- January 24, 1691
- Author/Creator
- Williamson, Augustine, fl. 1691
- Title
- [Promissory note for five thousand pounds from Augustine Williamson to William Johnson]
- Place Written
- Middlesex County, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 29 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Augustine Williamson promissory note owing "five thousand pounds of good sound Merchantable sweet sented Tobacco and Caffe" to William Johnson. Docket states that Johnson now owes four thousand pounds to John Somoes. Signed by John Vivion, John Williamson, William Vallicot, and by Augustine Williamson with his mark. Also signed by Edwin Thacker as Middlesex County Court Recorder, and affixed with a seal. The docket, dated 23 October 1695 and 2 December 1696, is signed by James Williamson, Edwin Thacker, and Robert Williamson with his mark.
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