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Box MSS VF 39

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William Vans letters, 1792-1794 Digital

Item — Box: MSS VF 39, Folder: 25Identifier: Mss:92 1671-1896 File
Scope and Contents: Draft letters from William Vans, dated from 1792 to 1794, primarily addressing collection of taxes and related activities and accounts, debts, and other business and property transactions. The copies may have been removed from a letter book. Other topics are trade of goods like sugar and starch, lawsuits, and insurance on ships including the snow Grand Sachem, on a return voyage from India. Recipients included Mr. Bulfinch, possibly architect Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844; Harvard AB 1781),...