Manuscripts

Benjamin Lincoln certificate for a case of imported claret

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Description: Certificate signed by Benjamin Lincoln, as the Customs Collection, certifying the importation of a case of claret, 1807 July 31. Countersigned by Thomas Melville, a major in the American Revolutionary War and participant in the Boston Tea Party (and the grandfather of author Herman Melville).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1807 July 31.
Call number: mssHM 84484
Creator: Lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 1988.
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Associated people: Melville, Thomas, (1751-1832,)
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