BIB_ID
125081
Accession number
MA 553.13
Creator
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817.
Display Date
1781 Sept. 24.
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Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Nathan Brownson was the Governor of Georgia from August 18, 1781 to January 3, 1782.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Enclosing a copy of an Act of Congress "voting a monument for the late Brigadier General Scriven [James Screven]; saying that although "it may not be proper to execute the work 'till the enemy are out of the State, yet, as acts of this sort are pleasing to the relations of the deceased, and prompt others to virtuous and magnanimous deeds, Congress thought it politic to pass the Resolve at this time."
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