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Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 Committee report on trade and manufacture

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00819.26 Author/Creator: Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Manuscript document Date: circa September 1787 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy

Probably unrelated to the Convention and accidentally inserted by Butler into these papers. Consists of a report requested by Jefferson as U.S. Minister to France, while in Paris, and prepared for the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. The report apologizes for its figures, "all the Books of the Custom House being carried away by the British" when they captured Charleston in 1780.

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