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George Read documents regarding the will of Ebenezer Howell
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Autograph documents produced by lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U. S. Senator from Delaware, George Read. One document concerns payments in relation to the will of Ebenezer Howell. The other concerns the sale of Howell's tavern and land in Newark, Delaware, to Henry Darby, and subsequently to John Evans.
Box 2, F0052: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes
A digitized copy of the documents are available at the University of Delaware Digital Institutional Repository.
Purchase, May 1988.
Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, June 2015.
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2015 June 3
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