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1. 8107 - Receipt

   Receipt of the Union Fire Society. The Union Fire Society paid Robert Curry $15.45 on January 6, 1844 (as indicated on the reverse of the document) for a variety of goods and services including "removeing fire Ladder," "land rent," labour in painting," "lettering houses,' and "painting twice & 15 1/2 lbs. lead." Robert Rantoul, treasurer of the Union Fire Society, paid him. The Union Fire Society was founded in 1804. Members of the society ...

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2. 948.014.037 - Bill

   Bill paid to Windship & Janes for $13.56 by Robert Rantoul Sr. Goods include: Black Lead Bottles Glass funnel Gum Ammon Box

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3. 988.508.120 - Painting

   "Tearing Down the Leaden Statue of George III, on Bowling Green, New York, to Celebrate the Signing of the Declaration of Independence" by Frederick Coffay Yohn. Vertical oil painting in black, grey and muted blue depicting a statue of horse and rider being pulled down with ropes by a crowd in the night. The lead was later moulded into bullets for the American Army. In 1898 Henry Cabot Lodge wrote "The Story of the Revolution;" this image is i...

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4. FIC007.188 - Receipt

   Receipt between Captain William Bartlett and John Dyson dated from February 23, 1774 to September 8, 1774

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5. FIC007.410 - Document

   Document is a list of the quantity and value of lead in the decades of the 1840s and 1850s.

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