BIB_ID
105472
Accession number
MA 488.138
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Docketed; date is from docket. Docket also includes this text: "The Tyrant of Syracuse not more detested than the British in this Country, the Slaves rejoiced at the Return of their Masters."
This is likely a copy of a letter in the Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This is likely a copy of a letter in the Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Informing him of their "complete possession of all the Southern states, Charlestown and Savannah excepted"; noting that "Civil Government is estalished in Georgia, and the Assembly of South Carolina sits the first of next month at Camden"; discussing his plans for a siege of Charleston; writing that "even the Slaves rejoice" [at the defeat of the British Army] "and feel a kind of freedom from oppression in the return of their Masters."
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