BIB_ID
128623
Accession number
MA 553.20
Creator
Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811.
Display Date
1783 Mar. 4.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 33.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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.
The recipient is identified simply as Mr. Wheeler, but it is likely Luke Wheeler of Dorsey, Wheeler & Company.
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.
The recipient is identified simply as Mr. Wheeler, but it is likely Luke Wheeler of Dorsey, Wheeler & Company.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, arrangements for shipments of provisions for prisoners being held in New York; discussing the risks involved and the possibility of seizure of the ships and/or the goods by the British; commenting "French Goods now sell in Baltimore under Cost and British goods can be purchased with Cash as cheap as with you. The first is owing to their inferiority in quality and the last to the very great and almost incredible scarcity of Cash. I am convinced British goods will not sell so cheap six months after peace is declared as at present. No Tobacco can be purchased of the planters; they are out of debt, want few necessaries, and are confident of peace;" requesting books, medicine, a calendar and a Cypher Seal.
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