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- GLC#
- GLC06502
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 1, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Hancock, John, 1737-1793
- Title
- to William Smallwood
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Communicates to General Smallwood a resolution by the Continental Congress in response to a petition from citizens in Somerset and Worcester counties in Maryland. The resolution orders Smallwood to help "suppress the Tories in the counties of Somerset and Worcester, and to seize and secure the persons mentioned in a list to be transmitted." The loyalists would then be required to submit to a loyalty oath and some would be put on trial. Signed as President of Congress. Written "In Congress."
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