Letter
Board of Trade to Peter Penet, November 6, 1779
[ Williamsburg ] 6 Nov. 1779 . The governor has written the Board to authorize Oliver Pollock of New Orleans to draw on Penet, D’Acosta Frères to the amount of 65,814 � Spanish milled dollars. This engagement was entered into by Peter Penet, and the order has been transmitted to Pollock. Signed (in clerk’s hand) by “J. Answer� [error for Ambler] and Dun[can] Rose, and countersigned (in clerk’s hand) by TJ.
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Founders Online u2014 Papers of Thomas Jefferson
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