BIB_ID
122112
Accession number
MA 489.10
Creator
Lawson, Robert, 1748-1805.
Display Date
1782 Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 30.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Honorable / Major General Greene / Head Quarters."
Endorsed on verso.
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.
Endorsed on verso.
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 Pierpont Morgan from New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Discussing a lawsuit brought against the bearer of this letter which seems groundless; wishing he could send him "any Intelligence from this quarter that would be worth your attention; but living in a part of the Country rather remote from the source of politicks, & being as much unconnected with the Public business, as it is possible in our present State to be, I am rather a bad hand at present for any thing of this kind;" relating what the news he had heard from England; reporting that "For the want of money every thing stands still in this State;" saying he has avoided any sort of civil commitment "which my Country has been pleas'd to propose to me - but I shall consider it as my indispensable duty to be in the field, when ever the militia is call'd out."
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