BIB_ID
107289
Accession number
MA 556.3
Creator
Cushing, Thomas, 1725-1788.
Display Date
1783 Mar. 19.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.9 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
Summary
Mentioning the arrival of Capt. Deshon from Amsterdam; noting that this vessel brought "a small Brass Box directed to Congress," and speculating that this box "contains the Articles of a Treaty of Peace agreed upon by our Commissioners & those of Great Brittain [sic.]"; informing him that the General Assembly has made Holten "a grant of Ninety pounds lawfull to [his] former services at Congress."
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