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REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] PICKERING, Timothy. A.L.S. TO ELLBRIDGE GERRY, Camp at the Gulph, 14 December 1777. 1p., folio, chipped at edges with loss of some words . FORCING THE BRITISH TO PAY FOR SEIZED GOODS AFTER SARATOGA. In the Seven Years War, Pickering notes, some American farmers were told they had to come to London to press their claims for compensation for goods seized by the British. He is determined to make the vanquished Burgoyne make good on his debts: "Colo. Lutterloh proposes that Genl. Burgoyne's Q. Masters, Commissaries, &c. should not be suffered to leave Massachusetts until their debts are paid, or secured beyond the power of fraud to avoid them." He wants Congress to know about this and "considering the faithlessness of our enemies" that seems "an object worthy their attention." Ex-Sang Collection. -- TRUMBULL, Joseph. A.L.S. to Andrew Huntington, Lebanon, Connecticut, 6 September 1777.p., 8vo. Plans to send some nuts to "Genl Washington...if he has no opportunity to forward them" to Washington they should go instead to General Israel Putnam. -- LEE, William. A.L.S. to his brother Richard Henry Lee, London, 12 June 1776, FIVE DAYS AFTER LEE INTRODUCED HIS INDEPENDENCE RESOLUTION IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Richard Henry Lee's docket on verso. 2pp., 4to, chipped and small tears, light browning . A plea to help collect some of his debts and a request for political news: "Send me also the public papers', tho I can't send you any or say a word about public affairs..." Together 3 items . (3)
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] PICKERING, Timothy. A.L.S. TO ELLBRIDGE GERRY, Camp at the Gulph, 14 December 1777. 1p., folio, chipped at edges with loss of some words . FORCING THE BRITISH TO PAY FOR SEIZED GOODS AFTER SARATOGA. In the Seven Years War, Pickering notes, some American farmers were told they had to come to London to press their claims for compensation for goods seized by the British. He is determined to make the vanquished Burgoyne make good on his debts: "Colo. Lutterloh proposes that Genl. Burgoyne's Q. Masters, Commissaries, &c. should not be suffered to leave Massachusetts until their debts are paid, or secured beyond the power of fraud to avoid them." He wants Congress to know about this and "considering the faithlessness of our enemies" that seems "an object worthy their attention." Ex-Sang Collection. -- TRUMBULL, Joseph. A.L.S. to Andrew Huntington, Lebanon, Connecticut, 6 September 1777.p., 8vo. Plans to send some nuts to "Genl Washington...if he has no opportunity to forward them" to Washington they should go instead to General Israel Putnam. -- LEE, William. A.L.S. to his brother Richard Henry Lee, London, 12 June 1776, FIVE DAYS AFTER LEE INTRODUCED HIS INDEPENDENCE RESOLUTION IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Richard Henry Lee's docket on verso. 2pp., 4to, chipped and small tears, light browning . A plea to help collect some of his debts and a request for political news: "Send me also the public papers', tho I can't send you any or say a word about public affairs..." Together 3 items . (3)