Brown, Elijah, fl. 1777 to Robert Morris

GLC04263

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GLC#
GLC04263
Type
Letters
Date
13 November 1777
Author/Creator
Brown, Elijah, fl. 1777
Title
to Robert Morris
Place Written
Winchester, Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : address : docket Height: 19.3 cm, Width: 23.9 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Requests that Morris deliver letters from Brown to his wife. Brown calls his separation from his wife cruel because he is "conscious of not administering any offence to the true friends of America." Addressed to Morris as a Member of Congress at Yorktown. Brown, a Philadelphia Quaker, had been exiled to Virginia on suspicion of Loyalist sympathies.

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