Letter to Horatio Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]
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Title
Letter to Horatio Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
The Presidents of Congress, and of the United States
Names
St. Clair, Arthur (Author)
Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1787-05-29
Place: Philadelphia, Pa.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. 3 pp. 4o
Abstract
At Gates's request, he advanced $1,000 to Mr. Yancey [James Jauncey], the commissary at Ticonderoga, in 1776; the man is dead and there is no credit for this money in his accounts; St. Clair has only a private receipt and therefore has not been able to get the claim allowed; asks Gates to certify that the money was advanced for public use, so that he can get it back or at least get a certificate for it, which will be worth four shillings on the pound; congratulates him on his "matrimonial connection"; would have done so earlier, but never writes except when forced to.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 1348
Archives EAD ID: 275610
Archives Components ID: 669
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 090ff540-6a35-0139-0fe9-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Horatio Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1787. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/090ff540-6a35-0139-0fe9-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1787). Letter to Horatio Gates [Berkeley County, Va.] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/090ff540-6a35-0139-0fe9-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Horatio Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/090ff540-6a35-0139-0fe9-0242ac110002
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