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Description
Silas Deane was a member of the Continental Congress. The document is a lengthy description of a lease entered by Deane, Administrator of the estate of Deacon Silas Deane of Groton to Humphrey and Solomon Avery. The lease included 200 acres of land, part of which was then in dispute.
Creation Date
1-20-1761
State/Province
Connecticut
Creator Life Dates
1737-1789
Keywords
Silas Deane, indenture, agreement, land, Connecticut, Groton, Humphrey Avery, Solomon Avery
Resource Identifier
080415-91
Date Digital
10-6-2013
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Legal | Political History | Social History | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
en-US
Digitization Specifications
600ppi or 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View, Fast Stone, or GIMP software. JPEGs compiled in PDF using 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
Deane, Silas, "Indenture signed by Silas Deane" (1761). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 19.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/19
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