BIB_ID
105431
Accession number
MA 554.7
Creator
Thornton, Matthew, 1714?-1803.
Display Date
1775 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.0 cm
Notes
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
Creating a Committee, given the "Alarming situation of this Colony" which has made it necessary to "raise a number of Troops, to defend the same, and the extreme scarcity of money" to collect "powder money" being held by Theodore Atkinson collected as a result of a tax levied on foreign ships; resolving that they should collect "all the money & powder he has in his hands, as receiver of the Above S'd duty...that no Excuse or delay of payment can be Admitted."
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