BIB_ID
136645
Accession number
MA 553.78
Creator
Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804.
Display Date
1779 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 31.4 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The honorable / John Houstoun, esquire / In the allied Camp before / Savannah / favored by / Mr. Maxwell."
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.
Written while Walton was held prisoner at Sunbury Prison in Georgia.
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.
Written while Walton was held prisoner at Sunbury Prison in Georgia.
Summary
Congratulating him "upon the new and glorious face of our affairs. There has been no point of time since the unfortunate and inglorious 29 December which I have felt the pains of confinement more heavily than the present. It is truly disagreeable to be in my present situation, wh[en] the liberty & Independence of my Country are about to be restored by the exertions of my friends. To be with them, and participate the danger and the glory of so great an asperation would be my happiness;" thanking him for his "attention and anxiety for my welfare after the loss of Savannah;" saying he wrote to him several times "but directing my letters to you as Governor of the State of Georgia, I believe they were detained - I did not give it up; and I had a small addition to my bounty."
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