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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03756-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 January 1788
- Author/Creator
- Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Wadsworth declares, "This moment from Convention- Where the proposed Constitution was passed 127 Yeas- 40 Nos- it ought to be remarked that all the [first?] Characters in the Convention were for the Constitution and Gen James Wadsworth the only man of any real consequence who was against it Our Governor Deputy Governor late Governor Griswold & all the Judges of the Superior Court were present except one- & for it - All of ye Council for - (one against it Gen Wadsworth)." Letter dated 1787, but docket (and content) reveal that it was created in 1788. With unsigned free frank.
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