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Folger, Timothy (fl. 1747) to James Bowdoin

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08938 Author/Creator: Folger, Timothy (fl. 1747) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 August 1747 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 22.2 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses how his whaling business is not doing so well and therefore is going to the Bahamas on a trading voyage in order to make money for a bond. Place writ obscured due to a patch. Possibly Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Bowdoin, James, 1676-1747
Folger, Timothy, fl. 1747

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