BIB_ID
102951
Accession number
MA 556.76
Display Date
1785.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.9 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Signed by 65 people including Christopher Gadsden, Isaac Huger, Lewis Morris, and Robert Smith.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
Signed by 65 people including Christopher Gadsden, Isaac Huger, Lewis Morris, and Robert Smith.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
Summary
Making the case that the British loyalist William Bull should be able to return to South Carolina; emphasizing his "virtuous disposition and amiable manners"; noting that he "anxiously exerted his influence to save the worthy Col. [Isaac] Hayne"; adding that he "dissuaded" the British "from the design which was formed to carry away the Records of this state" on "the eve of the evacuation."
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