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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Receipt from Thomas Burke for loan from Thomas Person
Burke, Thomas, ca. 1747-1783
July 19, 1781
Volume 15, Page 552

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State of North Carolina, July 19th, 1781.

Recd. of Thomas Person Esqr. fifty thousand Dollars State Emissions borrowed on public Account for which he is entitled to receive a Warrant on the public Treasury, or the like Number of Dollars of the State Emissions at his Election.

THOS. BURKE.

£50,000.

(Duplicate)

[On the back of this letter is the following.]

memr. repaid 2000 dollars to Coln. Benj. Hawkins which he advanced at Wake Court House.