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Title
Receipt : Duc de Bourgogne (ship), to Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1781 November 1
Creator
Granchain de Semerville, Guillaume-Jacques Liberge de, comte de, 1744-1805, author
Contributor
Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794, addressee
Date Created and/or Issued
1781-11-01
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Manuscripts
Rights Information
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Description
Autograph receipt for services, signed by Granchain, describing pay for Destouches' service as commander of the Neptune. Receipt contains 8 lines, plus a total amount. Written on board the ship Duc de Bourgogne, and dated 1st November, 1781. Verso of sheet is blank. Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent
1 receipt (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Identifier
mssDE 18
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/10100
Language
French
French
Subject
Granchain de Semerville, Guillaume-Jacques Liberge de, comte de, 1744-1805
Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794
Duc de Bourgogne (Ship)
Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Legal documents
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Neptune (Ship)
Letters (correspondence) France 18th century. (aat)
Military records France 18th century. (aat)
Military records United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Source
Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804 (bulk 1780-1781) ; Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
mssDE Box 2
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926.

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