ALS, 1808 Feb. 22, Washington, D.C., to Jedediah Huntington, New London, Conn.

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ALS, 1808 Feb. 22, Washington, D.C., to Jedediah Huntington, New London, Conn.

In reply to a query from the customs collector at New London, Duval explains that goods coming from a Danish town in India and shipped out of Calcutta are not subject to a law prohibiting the import of goods manufactured in Great Britain or its colonies merely because they were shipped from a colonial port.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6791870

Rosenbach Museum & Library

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Duvall, Gabriel, 1752-1844

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Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington was born in Norwich, Conn. He graduated from Harvard in 1763 and received his master's in 1770 from Yale. After graduating from Harvard, he became involved with the Norwich Militia, eventually becoming a Captain in May, 1774. In the spring of 1776, now a Colonel, he marched to Dorchester Heights. After the British left Boston, he marched to New York. In 1777 he became a Brigadier General. He stayed in Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. After the war became ...