BIB_ID
283549
Accession number
MA 554.9
Creator
Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814.
Display Date
1780 Jan. [4].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
The document is dated "the first Tuesday of January"; January 4th was the first Tuesday.
With a letter dated February 23, 1835 from Thaddeus Mason Harris, a Harvard University librarian, to Israel Keech Tefft, an American manuscript and autograph collector and enclosing an autograph of Robert Treat Paine that he received from Paine's daughters.
With revisions.
The document is dated "the first Tuesday of January"; January 4th was the first Tuesday.
With a letter dated February 23, 1835 from Thaddeus Mason Harris, a Harvard University librarian, to Israel Keech Tefft, an American manuscript and autograph collector and enclosing an autograph of Robert Treat Paine that he received from Paine's daughters.
With revisions.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Concerning the case of the State of Massachusetts vs. Edward Lyde; issuing an order for the confiscation of certain property of Edward Lyde who left the United States for the protection of the King and had not returned.
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