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Samuel Corry fire insurance policy

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Call Number:
F0025
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (1 page)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0098, F0025, Samuel Corry fire insurance policy, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1787 august 7 (inclusive)
Creator:
Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire
Form:
Insurance policies
Abstract:
A handwritten fire insurance policy completed on an early printed form for the home of Philadelphia resident Samuel Corry. The document includes the signature of Gunning Bedford, a member of the U. S. Continental Congress from the state of Delaware.

A handwritten fire insurance policy completed on an early printed form for the home of Philadelphia resident Samuel Corry. The document includes the signature of Gunning Bedford, a member of the U. S. Continental Congress from the state of Delaware.

Box 1, F0025: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes

Finding aid encoded by Tiffany Saulter, July 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0098 Delaware Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2015 July 10
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Collection Inventory

Samuel Corry fire insurance policy, 1787 August 7.
Box 1 Folder F0025

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