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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.08462 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0020] January-May 1779 |
Title | Account of sundries purchased by Major Samuel Shaw |
Date | 20 January - 4 February 1779 |
Document Type | Business and financial document |
Content Description | Account Samuel Shaw had with John Fisher in Philadelphia. These items were "charged to Gen Knox" and Shaw signed it, verifying the charges. The bill was for $77.75. Some of the items bought included shoes, shirts, combs, hair powder, snuff, paper, sealing wax, quills, etc. It is also noted that mending and washing of clothes was done. Docket in Shaw's hand. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War Revolutionary War General Finance Personal Hygiene Clothing and Accessories Merchants and Trade Commerce Tobacco and Smoking Book Selling Labor |
People | Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) |
Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |