Receipt for £3090 signed by Henry Lee, 1779.

Authors

Henry Lee

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Description

Henry Lee notes receipt of £3090 from William Guss, 24 April 1779. Place unknown. Lee had the nickname "Light-Horse Harry" and was the father of U.S. officer and Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Transcription

Rec'd of William Guss Three Thousand & Seventy five which with fifteen pounds he returned for his Trouble on receiving the Money at Wellsandy and deliverying it to me makes in the whole the sum of Three Thousand & Ninty Pounds which he passed his rect. to the Treasurer of this state for witness my hand this 24 day of April 1779. Henry Lee

Creation Date

4-24-1779

City

unknown

Creator Life Dates

1756-1818

Keywords

Henry Lee, receipt, William Guss, Light-Horse Harry, Light-Horse Harry Lee, money, pounds, 1779

Resource Identifier

080418-04

Date Digital

2-18-2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

History | Legal | 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.

Recommended Citation

Lee, Henry, "Receipt for £3090 signed by Henry Lee, 1779." (1779). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 130.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/130

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