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- GLC#
- GLC01450.145-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 10, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Sullivan, James, 1744-1808
- Title
- to Meschech Weare
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Letter written by Sullivan as a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts and a member of the Massachusetts legislature to Weare as Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire and a member of the Council, the upper house of the legislature. Sullivan writes to smooth over problems he foresees with a new Massachusetts law. Says he was the chairman of the committee that proposed the law to prohibit the export of certain articles therein mentioned. Says it was not passed to anger neighboring states, but to clothe the troops. Says the Southern states have not regulated the articles mentioned in the law and without it Massachusetts would not have been able to send supplies to Congress. Hopes there will be national regulations on trade so they can end "this Embargo." Sullivan was later state Attorney General and Governor (1807-1808).
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