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George Washington wrote this check to William Thornton for $272 on May 31, 1799. At the time, Thornton built rental houses for Washington in the new Federal City. Washington paid Thornton form dividends in his stock of the Bank of Columbia, the first bank chartered in what is today Washington, DC.
George Washington, check signed, May 31, 1799.
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