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ADAMS, SAMUEL. Partly-printed Document Signed, as Governor of Massachusetts,
appointing Benjamin Willis, Jr., Lieutenant of a Company in the Third Regiment of the
First Brigade. Countersigned by Secretary John Avery, Jr. 12
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loss to fold intersections repaired verso with paper, hinged to mat.
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[Boston], 31 March 1795
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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) FLOYD, WILLIAM. Document Signed, “Wm:
Floyd” twice, an account of his services to NY State as Senator and delegate to the Second
Continental Congress, including, on verso, his 1781 certification of the account and his
1782 acknowledgement of receipt of payment, each followed by his signature and paraph. 2
pages, folio, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; nearly complete separations at
horizontal folds, minor dampstaining along left edge verso (not affecting signatures). (TFC)
Poughkeepsie, 2 July 1781; Np, 2 November 1782
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The State of New York / To Wm Floyd Dr / To my pay as a Delegate from the 14th
Decem’r 1778 /To the 19 June 1779 is 188 days 34/ £319.12 . . . . Cr. . . .
1779 March 2 By Cash Rec’d out of the Continental Treasury / 2000 Dolls. Exch. at 12 for
1 is 66.14.4 . . . .
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I do hereby Certify that the within is a Just &True acct of my Services in Congress & . . . all
the Moneys drew from this State & out of the Continental Treasury on acct of my Services. . . .
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Rec’d . . . four hundred & forty three pounds eight Shillings in Specie in full for the within
Account . . . .”
AMERICANA
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