Difference between revisions of "Jonathan Trumbull to Wythe & John Adams, 9 March 1776"
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Letter text
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Lebanon 9th March 1776
Gentlemen
I received your Letter of the 18th, of October last, asking for an account of Hostilities committed by the Ministerial Troops and Navy in this Colony, since the first of last March. I embrace this earliest time after receiving the Accounts, papers, and documents officially authenticated to inclose, and furnish you with the materials, vessels too.
I am, with great Faith & Regard
Gentlemen
Your Obedient
Humble Servant
Jon TrumbullHonble John Adams and George Wythe Esquires
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Letter of gov Trumbull
9 March 1776
With all of hostilities
Committed by the british fleet
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Govr. Trumbull
To the Honble
John Adams and Geo. Wythe Esq.
at
Philadelphia