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Benjamin Lincoln certifies the importation of one cask of wine at Gloucester, Mass., 1805.

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No. 29341 District of Massachusetts. Port of Gloucestor I certify, that there was imported into this District on the fifth day of Feby 1805, by Thomas Parsons in the Channing Nancy Woodbury an American Vessel, from Bourdeaux one Cask of Claret numbered and marked as per margin, containing fifty five Gallons B Lincoln, Collector. C Nancy Woodbury No. 132 Claret To Stevens Gloucester Feby 5, 1805.

Creation Date

2-5-1805

City

Gloucester

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1733-1810

Keywords

Benjamin Lincoln, Gloucester, Massachusetts, wine, import, port, Thomas Parsons, Channing Nancy Woodbury, Bordeaux, claret, 1805

Resource Identifier

080424-13

Date Digital

11-8-2013

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Archival Science | Economic History | Social History | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Receipt for one cask of Bordeaux wine, signed by Benjamin Lincoln at the port of Gloucester, Massachuetts, 1805.

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