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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09828 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: 7 June 1793 Pagination: Order a Copy

Discusses the province of West Florida. Notes the boundaries that were ceded to Britain and the Treaty that was made with Spain. Mentions Britains then ceded [West Florida] to Spain and disposed the better part of the land to another country causing the dispute.

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