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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.00105
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0007] June-December 1773 
Title Oliver Whipple to Henry Knox about Robert and Daniel Fowle's debt
Date 17 December 1773
Author Whipple, Oliver (1744-1813)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description Discusses activity in trying to settle a debt owed to Knox by Robert Fowle and Daniel Fowle. Mentions the possibility of holding "them to Bail at our next Court." Whipple was serving as Robert Fowle's lawyer, but a post script indicates that he is no longer empowered to transact business for Fowle. For other discussions of their debt see GLC02437.00064, GLC02437.00097, and GLC02437.00102. Robert Fowle worked as a printer and publisher in Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire until 1777.
Subjects Debt  Printing  Law  Finance  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Book Selling  
People Whipple, Oliver (1744-1813)  Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  Fowle, Robert Luist (1743-1802)  
Place written Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Law
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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