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Manuscript document signed

Pay order addressed to David Rittenhouse for Sebastian Levan

1784/05/03

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

GLC04842.21
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Autograph letter signed

to George Clinton

18 October 1777

Clinton, James, 1736-1812

General Clinton replies to a letter from his brother George, who served as Governor of New York 1777-1795. Expresses regret regarding the 16 October British capture of Kingston, New York, then the capital. Referring to the Hudson River, states that...

GLC02497.03
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Autograph letter signed

to John Dickinson, et al.

August 14, 1795

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Memorial regarding Jay's Treaty. Answers Dickinson's current inquiry regarding a memorial with an enclosure previously sent to the Selectmen of Boston (not included).

GLC00496.100
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Autograph letter signed

to Catharine Macaulay

October 31, 1770

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

Argues that the Freeholders of America are firm in the cause of liberty. Associates the colonial cause with virtue and piety and implicitly identifies Britain with luxury and corruption. It is notable that so many colonists addressed their appeals to...

GLC01790.01
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Autograph letter signed

to John Dickinson

1771

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791

A response in draft form to Dickinson's previous letter, concerning her hopes that America confine its "lust for ornaments to the limits of their own ingenuity."

GLC01790.02

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