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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.

[Land grant for Benjamin Rush in Mifflin Co., Pa. and Thomas Mifflin] [Decimalized .01- .02]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04842.31 Author/Creator: Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Header Record Date: 24 April 1795 Pagination: 2 items. Order a Copy

Land grant signed by Thomas Mifflin as Governor of Pennsylvania and portrait engraving of Thomas Mifflin.

Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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