BIB_ID
120706
Accession number
MA 488.56
Creator
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810.
Display Date
1781 Nov. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Colonel Everard Meade / James River / Virginia."
Docketed.
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.
Docketed.
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
Congratulating him on the capture of Cornwallis and the "extirpation of the British from this State" [Virginia].
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