BIB_ID
136319
Accession number
MA 489.78
Creator
Rochefontaine, Stephen, 1755-1814.
Display Date
1794 Aug. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed on verso.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Requesting that Adams notify the local Selectmen for the towns and places he will survey of the work he will be doing, "in order that it Should not excite the jealousy or mistrust of any citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, when they will See foreigners Surveying in their vicinity and over their property;" providing him with the names of those working with him; proposing that he will survey Boston Harbor, Salem, Marblehead, Cape Ann and Portland.
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