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Title
Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]
Names
Boudinot, Mrs. Elias (Recipient)
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (Creator)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, [legacy collection]

Series XXVIII. Miscellaneous Manuscripts

B

Dates / Origin
Place: Philadelphia, Pa.
Date Created: 1781-10-21
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.
Physical Description
A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo
Description
Expresses regret at her silence; informs her of the death of Dr. [Nathaniel] Scudder who, attending patients [Oct. 17,] met General [David] Forman [at Black's Point, Shrewsbury, N. J.,] raising minute men to drive off marauders; on approaching them the doctor was shot through the head; leaves a helpless family; his attention to politics had been prejudicial to his little estate; not to be compared with New London where 66 widows were made in one day, and one poor woman lost her husband and five sons at once; communicates particulars as to attack on Yorktown gathered from Washington's letter [to the President of Congress] of Oct 12; and in a postscript dated Monday morning, 8 o'clock, informs her of the receipt at 3 A.M. of the news of Lord Cornwallis' surrender.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Archives EAD ID: 279934
Calendar number: EM. 20024
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e6e92510-002d-0130-a794-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1781: Place
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2023: Found by you!
  • 2024

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Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]