BIB_ID
132449
Accession number
MA 76.3
Creator
Wright, Robert, 1752-1826.
Display Date
[ca. 1803 Oct. 23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of documents relating to the quarrel between Dewitt Clinton and Jonathan Dayton in 1803. See related collection-level record for more information.
Probable location and approximate date of writing inferred from contents of the statement. The quarrel between Clinton and Dayton began on the Senate floor, on 23 October 1803.
Probable location and approximate date of writing inferred from contents of the statement. The quarrel between Clinton and Dayton began on the Senate floor, on 23 October 1803.
Provenance
From the Ford Collection. Gordon Lester Ford; by descent to his sons Worthington Chauncey Ford and Paul Leicester Ford; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Summary
Augmenting the statement of DeWitt Clinton regarding his case against Jonathan Dayton (MA 76.2). Followed on the verso by a statement of a similar nature in the autograph of Samuel Smith. Docketed by Smith, and with a cutting of his signature adhered below the docket.
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