Document Spotlight-Jesse Bowles’ Rental

Transcriber Afoxconti recently brought us a document concerning a financial relationship between the government and Jesse Bowles, of Richmond, Virginia. Bowles had essentially rented his home to a Captain Eddins for nearly a year, during which time the home was used as a hospital. For the period beginning November 1798 and ending October, 1799, Bowles was to be paid the sum of $70.
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