Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I
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Title
Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779
New York and New Jersey
Names
Witherspoon, John (Author)
Hopkins, Samuel (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1775-02-27
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. Endorsed: "Testimony in favor of negroes." 1 page. 4o
Abstract
Bristol "your man" has received the money sent him; he and his companion behave very well; they have become pretty good in reading and writing and have a fair notion of the Christian faith; as for Hopkins's son, he cannot keep up with his class and did not appear at the winter examinations; thinks the fault was in putting him in too advanced a class at first.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 808
Archives EAD ID: 275340
Archives Components ID: 399
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1b5bd660-6a40-0139-b092-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1775. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1b5bd660-6a40-0139-b092-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1775). Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1b5bd660-6a40-0139-b092-0242ac110002
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