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Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.]

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The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779

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Title
Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.]
Names
Mathews, John (Author)
Leslie, Alexander, approximately 1740-1794 (Addressee)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection

The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779

The Carolinas and Georgia

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1782-04-12
Place: Cane Acre, S.C.
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Topics
United States. Continental Congress
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: L. S. 4 pp. Fo
Description
In answer to his letter of the 8th inst.; maintaining that he has been misinformed when he says the sequestered estates have "had the greatest attention paid to them -- been preserved in a connected state -- and greatly thriven"; that "liberal allowances" have not been made to the families whose estates were sequestered; that his officers have stripped the estates of all kinds of property; that although the State legislature has confiscated the property of loyalists it has left untouched debts due them; that his proposition for suspending the Confiscation act without offering an equivalent is inadmissible.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 1245
Archives EAD ID: 275556
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 95460b60-6a40-0139-a7bb-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

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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. "Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1782. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd0875d-413b-facf-e040-e00a1806327a

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd0875d-413b-facf-e040-e00a1806327a

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1782). Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.] Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd0875d-413b-facf-e040-e00a1806327a

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Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Alexander Leslie [Charleston, S. C.]