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

Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Comfort Sands, 1778 Oct. 17.

BIB_ID
157705
Accession number
MA 557.17
Creator
Duer, William, 1747-1799.
Display Date
1778 Oct. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Comfort Sands Esqr. / Auditor of the State of New York / at his House near Shawagonk Church / or at Poughkeepsie / State of New York."
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Summary
Sending him "two notes of hand in favor of the Treasurer of the State of New York"; transmitting "an account betwixt Genl. Thompson and the Convention of the State of New York"; reporting that he is going to New Jersey for ten or twelve days, then returning to Ulster County "in order to settle all [his] public accts and to return [his] private affairs to some degree of order."