BIB_ID
103604
Accession number
MA 554.29
Creator
Hewes, Joseph, 1730-1779.
Display Date
1776 Feb. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1p., with address) ; 28.4 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Samuel Johnston Esqr / Edenton / North Carolina / Free / J. Hewes."
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Enclosing a letter from the Committee of Safety in New York authorizing "two Regiments in a number of Transports, Men of War, Bomb Vessels, etc., are sailed, Supposed for Virg'a or the Carolinas, that General Clinton had sail'd with them. I hope Our province will be on their guard, and that you are in great forwardness with your third Regiment."
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