BIB_ID
102575
Accession number
MA 552.24
Creator
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814.
Display Date
1780 May [12].
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.1 cm
Notes
With seal.
Docketed.
Addressed to "Hon. Nathaniel Peabody Esq. / Member of Committee of / Congress at Head Quarter / Morris Town."
Day is from the published version of the letter.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Docketed.
Addressed to "Hon. Nathaniel Peabody Esq. / Member of Committee of / Congress at Head Quarter / Morris Town."
Day is from the published version of the letter.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Mentioning an "annual Loan of three Million Livres, which the Court of France have agreed to supply to Congress during the War"; writing that France is also sending "a Squadron of french ships with a body of land Forces to operate in America"; noting that Don Juan [de Miralles] has been "instructed by the Court of Spain to make proposals to Congress, for taking into Pay a Body of American Troops for the Reduction of the Floridas"; discussing a financial matter.
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