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1883
Johnson, Fry, & Co., fl. 1825-1873
Thomas Jefferson
One print of President Thomas Jefferson dated 1883. Engraved by Johnson, Fry & Co.
GLC08878.1198
June 28, 1780
Home, James, fl. 1780
to William Home
James, a British soldier aboard the Europe, writes to his father. Discusses the mail. States he has been a week in [New] York and Long Island. Mentions that German mercenary General Wilhelm Knyphausen took Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Comments that...
GLC01450.045
1755-1763
Nourse, James, 1731-1784
to Horatio Gates
Discusses Major Gates' son, comments on the law requiring giving arms to the militia, and mentions Colonel George Washington twice.
GLC01450.264
1776
Johnston, Francis, 1749-1815
to Persifor Frazer
Says he should have waited for Frazer in the morning, but was indisposed. Did not sleep well last night because David Matthews "a Capital Tory (no less than the present Lord Mayor of N York" was quite loud next door. He was accompanying Matthews...
GLC01450.457.01
November 9, 1779
Warren, James, 1726-1808
to Elbridge Gerry
Discusses "A new Constitution of Government now forming by the Convention at Camebridge," referring to the debate over the Articles of Confederation. "The people seem convinced of the necessity of a new form of Government," but progress is slow....
GLC01450.528
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