Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Augusta, to Seaborn Jones, 1780 Jan. 9.

BIB_ID
136649
Accession number
MA 553.79
Creator
Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804.
Display Date
1780 Jan. 9.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Seaborn Jones, esquire / Colcock & Gibbons's / Charles Town."
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.
Summary
Advising "an immediate termination to your partnership with Mason. Our Governor has desired me to acquaint you that you shall be allowed for 4,000 dollars to be his private secretary for the year, and allow you to practice in the Courts beside. The late civil arrangement of the Assembly has left scarce any person but Jackson & yourself to practice; and it will be a fortunate circumstance for you, to take your seat at the Bar at a time when great abilities are not likely to be opposed to you, or even exerted. It will in particular be lucky for you to have the countenance of Government;" asking him to "Inquire of Captain Spencer whether Mrs. Walton's negroes &c were taken from her; and let me know every thing else you may learn respecting her;" asking him to send the money and the cloth and pay whatever is necessary; asking, in a postscript, "If the Town should look like Invasion, before you leave it, I wish my Phæton to be brought up; and Lucy & Nanny put out of the way."