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    • Author/Creator:Oliver, Joseph, active 1786, author.
    • Title:Joseph Oliver to Thomas Bowlby giving power of attorney to Bowlby, 31 August 1786.
    • Production:[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1786]
    • Physical Description:1 online resource.
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    • Notes:Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
      Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
      Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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    • Summary:Witnessed and co-signed by attorneys William Truelove and A. Vikers, saying proper stamps were provided for the document. This Legal document gives Oliver's power of attorney to Bowlby, an attorney in Philadelphia. Oliver was previously in an artillery unit in Pennsylvania and had left North America and joined an artillery unit based out of Nottingham, England. Oliver was giving Bowlby the complete power to transact his business in America, including the distribution of certain lands for service in North America during the Revolution. Also demands that Bowlby recover debts from a William Rows of Philadelphia that is owed Oliver. Two embossed stamps on recto, one for 1 shilling 6 pence and another for 6 pence. Also an ink stamp on recto that says Half-Penny Sheet. Red wax seal next to Oliver's signature is extent.
    • Variant and related titles:American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
    • Format:Book
    • Series:American history module 1
      American history. Module I, Settlement, commerce, revolution and reform, 1493-1859.
    • Subjects:Civics
      Law
      Military history
    • Genre/Form:Legal instruments
    • Also listed under:AM (Publisher), digitiser.
      Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17049213