Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1775.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1775.

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Manuscript copy of a letter of 14 September 1775 from Dr. Benjamin Church to a General Sullivan. There is no indication of the date at which this copy was made, but it contains the notation "Manuscript Letters I. 1774-1777."

1 item (2 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778

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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown. ...

Sullivan, General.

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