ALS, 30 May 1791 / to General [Edward] Hand, Philadelphia.

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ALS, 30 May 1791 / to General [Edward] Hand, Philadelphia.

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Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Constitution, and a representative in the first U.S. Congress Clymer writes to Edward Hand, the noted general and physician in Lancaster, PA, about the system for collecting the new federal tax on whiskey and beginning of the IRS.

5 p. ; 20.1 x 16.1 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7376097

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Hand, Edward, 1744-1802

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Clymer, George, 1739-1813

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