BIB_ID
116768
Accession number
MA 554.18
Creator
Stone, Thomas, 1743-1787.
Display Date
1776 Jan. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Identity of recipient from published letter cited below.
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.
Identity of recipient from published letter cited below.
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
Concerning a deed to land Washington purchased; explaining that "after many Disappointments I got the Deed from Mr. Adams & his Sisters to you executed..;". reporting that an order was given for three Companies in Maryland to "march to the Eastern Shore Counties of Virginia to assist the Inhabitants in repelling any attack made by Dunmore, who seems determined to extend the Calamities of War to every defenceless place within his Compass."
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