The young country clerk's collection of the best presidents of bills, bonds, conditions, aquittances, releases, indentures, deeds of sale, letters of attorney, last wills [and] testaments, [and etc]. : With many other necessary and useful forms of such writings as are vulgarly in use between man and

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The young country clerk's collection of the best presidents of bills, bonds, conditions, aquittances, releases, indentures, deeds of sale, letters of attorney, last wills [and] testaments, [and etc]. : With many other necessary and useful forms of such writings as are vulgarly in use between man and man : manuscript, [1692-1719] / by Francis Daniel Pastorius.

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Examples of legal agreements and forms, including marriage certificates for Friends (Quakers); license to keep an ale house; agreements regarding land, leases and mortgages; warrants; wills; agreements for indentured servants, etc., some from actual documents in use at the time; with a section on letter writing titled epistolography and epistolographia.

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