BIB_ID
136709
Accession number
MA 558.135
Creator
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
Display Date
1775 May 10.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Miss / Mercy Scollay / Worcester."
Mercy Scollay was engaged to Joseph Warren and was living in Worcester with Dr. Elijah and Mrs. Dix and with Joseph Warren's children from his first marriage.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
Mercy Scollay was engaged to Joseph Warren and was living in Worcester with Dr. Elijah and Mrs. Dix and with Joseph Warren's children from his first marriage.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of her letter and replying to Dr. Dix's wish to know about the sowing of wheat; asking that she "let the Dr. know I shall acquiesce with Thankfulness in his Judgment and as I have I suppose a Man engaged at Worcester and have now sent up [illegible] I think it will be advisable for him to hire for me ten or twenty acres more of Land as I shall keep several Heifers and cannot think of being deprived of indulging myself in the Leisure Hours of this one Year in the Pleasures of Agriculture."
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