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Request for payment of sixty-nine pounds to James Dixon for attendance at the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Dated Philadelphia 10 April 1781 and signed by [ ] Muhlenberg, Speaker, David Rittenhouse, Treasurer.

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Draft to J. D. Beers, New York to pay Wolcott Hinsdale $1000 for cotton shipment as one third payment. Signed by Samuel St. John, Jr. for James G. Whitaker. Dated Mobile, May 19, 1838.

Scope and Contents Draft from the West Episcopal Society (now St. Pauls’s Church in Bantam, CT) to pay JamesKilborn and Co. £17:4:11. Dated 2 June 1800, Litchfield, CT. The church was designed and built by a local contractor, Giles Kilborn. When he died in 1796, James Kilborn continued with construction. The church encountered financial difficulties, as evidenced by writs issued by the Litchfield County Court in 1800 and 1802 directing the Committee for Building the Church to render payments to builders and...

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Jacob Read in Charleston writes to George Simpson, cashier of the late Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, to pay $38.26 to Rumford & Abijah Dawes.