Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 re: appropriation of Morris' property after the Revolutionary War
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07548 Author/Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 Place Written: Hills [?] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1797/01/02 Pagination: 3 p. + docket 24.5 x 19 cm Order a Copy
"I cannot be worse of[f] ... if my furniture is sold I shall think harder of it than of all the rest... his opinion of Prane Street [debtors prison] accomodations ... thus you see our property and honours vanish together."
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