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- GLC#
- GLC06491.05-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 29, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Mercer, John F., 1759-1821
- Title
- to George Weedon
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : free frank Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Relays information related to the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution. Sends a newspaper (not included) with "a very interesting debate in the House of Commons." Also mentions the Robert Livingston-Guy Carleton correspondence, as it relates to executing the provisional peace treaty's call for the British evacuation of New York. Explains the need to be prudent about keeping up American defenses. A post script indicates he misplaced a letter from Weedon from which he was to send an extract from to another person.
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