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Letter from Francis Lewis to the New-York Convention

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FRANCIS LEWIS TO THE NEW-YORK CONVENTION.

Philadelphia, October 26, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: As the State of New-York has not been represented in Congress for several weeks past, Mr˙ P˙ Livingston

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with myself being their only Delegates at present here, we are requested by Congress to apply to you, sirs, for a full representation; therefore hope you will speedily send us one other member that we may be enabled to give our vote for that State which we have been sent here to represent.

We are respectfully, gentlemen, your very humble servants,

FRAS˙ LEWIS, for sell, and
PH˙ LIVINGSTON.

To the honourable the Convention for the State of New-York.

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Title

Letter from Francis Lewis to the New-York Convention: State of New-York has not been represented in Congress for several weeks past

Resource Type

text

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documents (object genre)

Date Created

1776-10-26

Subject

Key people, events, and institutions: Continental Congress
Key people, events, and institutions: meetings, provincial conventions and assemblies

Document ID

S5-V2-P01-sp27-D0200

Series

S5

Volume

S5-V2

Part

S5-V2-P01

Sub-Part

S5-V2-P01-sp27

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