BIB_ID
105696
Accession number
MA 157.34
Creator
Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
Display Date
1792 Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Enclosing a resolution passed on behalf of Charles Knowles and other Regimental Pay Masters in the Continental Army concerning the inadequacy of their compensation; asking that he communicate the resolution to the U.S. Congress "in order that such compensation may be made them as they shall judge reasonable for their respective Services."
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