ALS, 1782 March 29 : Boston, to Nathaniel Freeman, Sandwich.

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ALS, 1782 March 29 : Boston, to Nathaniel Freeman, Sandwich.

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Notes some discontent due to taxes and hoarding of money, advising "our duty is to hold on & hold out, & to keep continually before our Eyes the Comparison of our present circumstances & of 1775 ... My Observation of this Revolution teaches me that scarce anything has turn'd out according to expectation."

3 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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