ALS, 1776 January 3 : Camp, to Robert Morris, Philadelphia.

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ALS, 1776 January 3 : Camp, to Robert Morris, Philadelphia.

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Writes of the need to fortify New York just as he had directed Rhode Island to do. (Soon after, Lee superintended the city's defenses.) Requests Congress to pay off his Virginia purchases.

2 1/4 p. ; 33 x 21 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution...

Lee, Charles, 1731-1782

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Lee was a veteran British Army officer who settled in America in 1773 and was appointed a major general in the Continental Army at the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1778, he was appointed to lead the attack at the Battle of Monmouth, but instead retreated without warning, apparently ignored orders from George Washington, and afterward demanded an apology from him. Lee was suspended and later dismissed from the Army. From the description of ALS, 1776 Jan. 30, Stamford, Ct...