Receipt for Certificates
Document 1786The author is sending a receipt for the Certificates received for Captain Hughes and Gilbert. The receipt should have been sent earlier but he had hoped instead to have the receipts from the two men themselves and to deliver them personally.
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Annapolis - Feb:y 3d. 1786:
Dear Sir,
Herewith you will receive a receipt for the Certificates you sent me belonging to Caps. Hughes and Gilbert It should have been sent before but I was in hopes to have delivered them, and had the receipt of the parties themselves to transmit, however I must be accountable I am, Sir, your Mo Obedt. Servt. J. White
Jos. Howell Esqr
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