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John Ferrell and William Patterson indenture to Edmund Randolph(1788 May 26)

  • MS 2004.5
  • 1 item

This is an agreement binding William Patterson and John Ferrell to Edmund Randolph, then Governor of Virginia, for unspecified duties at a salary of fifty pounds. The agreement includes a provision that Randolph would issue a licence for marriage between William Patterson and Margaret Hippard. The place the document was signed is not specified and it lacks the signature of a government official attesting to its validity.

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