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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.05247
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0103] November-December 1791 
Title Bond from Shaw and Randall in favor of George Bell
Date 28 November 1791
Author Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Docket identifies document as a copy. Date added later in pencil. Shaw, on behalf of himself and Thomas Randall, his business partner, declares that their firm is bound to George Bell's firm in Ostend, Flanders (he spells it "Ostende;" in present-day Belgium) for a particular sum of money. Outlines the terms of the financial transaction, which apparently involves the sale by Bell of Shaw's merchandise, including an assortment of teas. Signature witnessed by Joseph Bell and George Irving.
Subjects Revolutionary War General  Global History and Civics  Finance  Debt  Diet and Nutrition  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  
People Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794)  Bell, George (fl. 1791-1795)  Randall, Thomas (d. 1811)  
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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