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[Petition and Recommendation in favor of Joseph Galloway, an attainted traitor.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08389.02 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: February 28, 1795 Pagination: 4 p. : Order a Copy

Missing text of petition, but with 43 signatures including: Thomas Mifflin, William Bingham, and Timothy Matlack. Galloway's was the only pardon granted to a loyalist who had been found guilty of treason during the Revolution.

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