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Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Ms. Coll. 621 Folder 51 Folder 51. Letter, 1776 June 6.

Title

Letter, 1776 June 6.

Authors

Call number

Ms. Coll. 621 Folder 51 Folder 51.
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

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Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date
1776 June 6

Summary

In this letter, George Walton asks on behalf of himself, Joseph Pannel, Robert Walton, and Samuel Scott permission of the "Honorable President of the Convention" that he might recruit 300 men from the inhabitants of the colony of Virginia to armed service in Georgia. Below this letter is a note dated 6 June 1776 from the Convention stating that a Mr. Drayton and a Mr. Elliot of South Carolina will also be allowed to recruit in Virginia.

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