BIB_ID
102767
Accession number
MA 557.19
Creator
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814.
Display Date
[1795?] May 15.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Major Mountflorence."
Dated "Thursday morn 15th May." May 15 fell on a Thursday in 1795, which seems the most likely year for this letter based on the mention of General Pinckney's trip to France (1796-1798).
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Dated "Thursday morn 15th May." May 15 fell on a Thursday in 1795, which seems the most likely year for this letter based on the mention of General Pinckney's trip to France (1796-1798).
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Summary
Writing that "Mr. Humphreys ... proposes to go to Lyons himself, & will require [Major Mountflorence's] assistant to find General [Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney, in case he shall have left that city."
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