BIB_ID
81385
Accession number
MA 556.71
Creator
Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789.
Display Date
1788 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Francis Child esquire / Comptroller / Williamsburgh."
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Summary
Asking him to help the bearer of the letter, Mr. McClure, in his attempt "to obtain an allowance on the acct. settled in the Comptroller's office"; noting that "yesterday the House of Commons resolved no New Convention shall be called"; adding that this issue is "to be taken up in the Senate tomorrow," where he hopes "the result ... will be otherwise and may produce an Alteration in the Commons."
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