BIB_ID
157778
Accession number
MA 896
Creator
Dunbar, Moses, -1777.
Display Date
1777 Mar. 19 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (10 p.), unbound ; 17 x 10.5 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.D. Smith in 1907.
Summary
Contemporary manuscript copy of Moses Dunbar's last speech, dated at end "(Signed) Moses Dunbar Hartford 18th March 1777." Title page reads "The Last Speech & Dying Words of Moses Dunbar who was Executed at Hartford on Wednesday the 19th of March 1777 For High Treason against the State of Connecticut."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (19.5 cm)
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