Comptrollers' Report on Brigadier General Monckton's Certificate for fresh Meat and Flour supplied the Forces at Lancaster, Carlisle and the Western Garrisons from 26th March to the 25th November, 1760

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Comptrollers' Report on Brigadier General Monckton's Certificate for fresh Meat and Flour supplied the Forces at Lancaster, Carlisle and the Western Garrisons from 26th March to the 25th November, 1760

pp. (4) including 1 integral blank. Brown sepia ink on paper. Folds. 8 x 13 inches

Pennsylvania: 9th April 1761

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

Concerns money owed by His Majesty to the Philadelphian Jew, Moses Franks, supplier of "victuals" (food) to the British Army. See E. Wolf and M. Whiteman, The History of the Jews of Philadelphia from Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson (1957), p. 86