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- GLC#
- GLC01450.236-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 17, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Flood, Stephen, fl. 1778
- Title
- to Benjamin Hewins
- Place Written
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 21 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Worries that some back home believe he has defected to the British side. Feels he has "as good a right as others" to the "town Bounty" this year, and asks Hewins to obtain the money and send it to him. Letter addressed to Hewins as "Treasurer of the Committee of Stoughtonham," today called Sharon, Massachusetts. A note, seemingly written later but in the same hand, states that the money should instead be sent to Levit Billings.
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