BIB_ID
105167
Accession number
MA 553.73
Creator
Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790.
Display Date
1777 Feb. 11.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.8 cm
Notes
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.
With a penciled notation, signed "C[harles] C[olcock] Jones", "The above is in the handwriting of Dr. Lyman Hall."
With a penciled notation, signed "C[harles] C[olcock] Jones", "The above is in the handwriting of Dr. Lyman Hall."
Summary
Informing him of his application in the amount of $10,000 for the recruitment of soldiers from Virginia; saying he is not able to supply guns or blankets and recommending that he "obtain such Supplies as You can get, where you are & as Soon as possible march to the Georgia State;" informing him that "Complaints have been made to us Repeatedly, that Some Officers under y'r Command, behaved Imprudently, before your arrival in Virginia, but have not the least Doubt but that [by] your Discreet Management, every Imputation of that kind will be prevented for the Future;" adding in a postscript, that his and Maj. Cuthbert's order was accepted and $5,000 was paid to the Virginia Delegates.
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