BIB_ID
129201
Accession number
MA 554.5
Creator
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795.
Display Date
1792 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Nicholas Gilman Esqr / Representative in / Congress / Philadelphia."
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.
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
Delivering the "votes of the Electors of this State for President and vice President of the United States" via his youngest son who will be visiting Philadelphia; confirming his election as a Representative; informing him that "the votes of the Electors in this State were all for the president & vice President now in office."
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