Wythe & the Committee on Clothing to the State of New York, 7 October 1776

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Letter from the Committee on Clothing to the Convention of the State of New York, October 7, 1776. Image from Charles Hamilton's https://archive.org/details/bookofautographs0000hami/page/124/mode/2up?q=wythe The Book of Autographs] (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978).

George Wythe and the Committee on Clothing write to the Convention of the State of New York, sending $10,000. The resolutions enclosed were dated June 19 and 25 September, 1776, providing for clothing for the troops.[1]

Letter text

Page 1

Philadelphia, October 7:th 1776

Gentlemen

The Committee Appointed to Carry into Execution the Inclosed Resolve can think of no method so proper for the State of New York, as to apply to the Convention; and for that purpose we do send you ten thousand dollars, and desire you to appoint proper persons in the Several Districts to Execute the same; and if, upon trial, you find that more Cloathing may be had than this money will purchase, you may have more by applying to this Committee —

To the

Rob Treat Paine
Josiah Bartlett
William Ellery
Wm Williams
G. Wythe
Arthur Middleton
Wm Floyd
Lyman Hall
Geo: Ross

To the hon.ble
the Convention

of the State
of
New York

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peter Force, American Archives: A Documentary History of the United States of American from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 to the Definitive Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, September 3, 1783, Fifth Series, vol. 3 (Washington, D.C.: M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1853), 247.

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