Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [News of British defeat in South Carolina]

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Type
Documents
Date
14 June 1779
Author/Creator
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Title
[News of British defeat in South Carolina]
Place Written
Monroe, New York
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Written in the clerical hand of Samuel Shaw. Begins with a note attesting that General Nathanael Greene received payment on an account from Colonel Cox in Philadelphia. The second copied document, also on page one, is an extract of a letter from Levi Hollingsworth to William Bradford (possibly the Philadelphia printer) 11 June 1773 regarding an enclosed [handbill] of great importance. The third document, possibly a copy of the handbill to which Hollingsworth referred, comprises the end of page one and page two. Relates "Important News" from 9 June 1779: "the agreeable intelligence of the defeat of the British Army from Georgia before Charleston South Carolina..."

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