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Dorr, Ebenezer Ritchie (1799-1873) to Aaron Hobart

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06313.04.186 Author/Creator: Dorr, Ebenezer Ritchie (1799-1873) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 May 1822 Pagination: 1 p. : address : free frank ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Thanks Hobart for helping his get information for Thomas Wilson of London about a claim made by William Sutton Skinner under the Florida Treaty (see GLC06313.182). Comments on his efforts to obtain the information.

Dorr, Ebenezer Ritchie, 1799-1873
Hobart, Aaron, 1787-1858

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