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Receipt for Mr. Vallentine, to Robert Stephenson
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A note to Robert Stephenson, informing him of a payment to a Mr. Vallentine for claret, limes, and cork.…
Bill, from Charles Crump, March 6, 1758
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This a bill for a "black Walnut coffin," presumably the coffin in which Daniel Parke Custis was buried.…
Receipt and Invoice, from Robert Cary and Company, March 1, 1758
A receipt for sale of tobacco, with the enclosure of an invoice for a variety of unspecified consumer goods, from one of the Custis family's London…
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