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Title
Letter to Governor [George]
Names
Clinton, George, 1739-1812 (Recipient)
Remsen, Henry (Creator)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, [legacy collection]

Series XIX. Booth's History of New York

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1483 - 1876 (Approximate)
Place: Morristown, N.J.
Date Created: 1779-10-29
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Genres
Documents
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Citation/reference: EM12068-13172
Physical Description
A. L. S. 2 pp. and 1 leaf with address and endorsement. Fo
Description
Clinton, Poughkeepsie [N. Y.]. The last intelligence from the South premature; transmits reliable information received from Philadelphia; intelligence from Savannah up to Sept. 29 informed Remsen that the Count [D'Estaing] had taken the Experiment, Captain Sir James Wallace, 50 guns, with dispatches, Gen. Vaughan and 20 other officers bound to Georgia from New York; also a sloop of war with £30,000 to pay the troops; it was said the Fowey and Ariel were taken and all the transports; said that Sir James Wallace was so drunk that he did not destroy the dispatches, orders, and code of signals; failure of an expedition to capture Gov. Livingston; Col. Simcoe killed or taken.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Archives EAD ID: 279099
Calendar number: EM. 10851
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d65fe660-c53a-012f-cb88-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1483: Created (Approximate)
  • 1739: Creator Born
  • 1779: Place
  • 1812: Creator Died
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Governor [George]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1483 - 1876. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bd926ab2-b9d5-48a8-e040-e00a180644a9

Chicago/Turabian Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Governor [George]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bd926ab2-b9d5-48a8-e040-e00a180644a9

APA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1483 - 1876). Letter to Governor [George] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bd926ab2-b9d5-48a8-e040-e00a180644a9

Wikipedia Citation

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Letter to Governor [George]