BIB_ID
129824
Accession number
MA 557.3
Creator
Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788.
Display Date
1779 May 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 29.6 cm
Notes
Also signed by Thomas Burke and William Sharpe.
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Summary
Reporting that the "Delegates of Virginia have just now laid before Congress an Instrument from that State empowering them to confederate with any one or more states"; enclosing a "copy of the Instrument" and asking them to lay it "before the general Assembly"; stressing that it is "necessary to come to some conclusive decision on the Business of Confederation."
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