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Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779

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Title
Document
Names
Osgood, Christopher (Creator)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection

The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1782-11-13
Place: Providence, R.I.
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Topics
United States. Continental Congress
Genres
Documents
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: D. S. Witnessed by Paul Mumford. Endorsed. 4 pp. Fo
Description
Statement of Christopher Osgood of Brattleborough, Vt., at an examination before Paul Mumford, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, with reference to communications between Chief Justice Smith of New York and certain Americans, and to illegal traffic in British goods. Narrates that in April he carried and delivered a letter from Luke Knowlton, of Newfane, [Vt.,] to New York for William Smith, formerly Chief Justice of the colony; returning in June he brought an unaddressed letter from Smith to Knowlton; in August he was again sent by Knowlton with a letter to Smith from Samuel Wells of Brattleborough [Vt.], returning with an unaddressed letter from Secretary Morgan to Wells; statement of his expenses and of his pay; the first letter, he was told, was brought from Canada by Solomon Ball, the second by Shadrach Ball, both letters he supposes were from Governor Haldimand; in June, one Clarke of Upper Cohors told him he also had been sent to New York; at New York Osgood saw Colonel Norton of Martha's Vineyard, John Taylor of Northborough, Leve Thayer of Milford, Ezra Jones of Worcester, William Prentice of Boston, and Samuel Stevens of Charleston, N. H.; Thayer, Taylor, Norton, and a fourth person, he learned from the first two, had purchased a brig and were to be protected by armed vessels in transporting her cargo to Vineyard Sound; in return, Captain Gooldsbury of Lloyd's Neck was to furnish them with cattle; Thayer and Taylor were to furnish Abijah Williams of New York, formerly of Massachusetts, with cattle; James Richardson of Leominster, Mass., tried to obtain goods in return for cattle, but failed.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 580
Archives EAD ID: 275217
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e2d4f070-6a3f-0139-c87b-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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  • 1782: Created
  • 2022: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Document" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1782. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b917eb3b-de5b-ad32-e040-e00a18060e3e

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Document" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b917eb3b-de5b-ad32-e040-e00a18060e3e

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1782). Document Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b917eb3b-de5b-ad32-e040-e00a18060e3e

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