BIB_ID
136646
Accession number
MA 553.76
Creator
Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804.
Display Date
1778 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
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.
Place of writing from published letter; salutation "Dear Brother".
Place of writing from published letter; salutation "Dear Brother".
Summary
Relating accounts of "twenty seven sail of vessels having come in and anchored in Warsaw Sound...Robert's Artillery & Thompson's horse are here which promises well - If they are only Tory Refugees from New York, I hope we shall give a proper account of them. General Howe, who is yet here, says he has accounts of 50 sail being off Eddisto - If this is the Case, the Invasion is general - concerted - and formidable - One way or other, however, I doubt not we shall weather the Storm; for why should we be lost in particular? I have seen the affairs of the Continent 40,000 times blacker."
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