[Letter] 1790 Aug. 8, Elizabethtown [to] Dear Sir / Rich'd Bassett.

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[Letter] 1790 Aug. 8, Elizabethtown [to] Dear Sir / Rich'd Bassett.

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Letter, 1790 Aug. 8 to an unknown correspondent, concerns Samuel Allyne Otis's mistake in calculating Bassett's "allowance" as a U.S. Senator. Otis, a Massachusetts native, was the first Secretary of the U. S. Senate. -- Also an unfilled printed document, signed by Bassett as Governor of Delaware, licensing a public house of entertainment, and the selling of "strong liquors" there and also signed by Abraham Ridgely, Secretary of the State of Delaware.

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Otis, Samuel Allyne, 1740-1814

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Samuel Allyne Otis (November 24, 1740 – April 22, 1814) was the first Secretary of the United States Senate, serving for its first 25 years. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was a delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1787 and 1788. Born in Barnstable in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he graduated from Harvard College before engaging in mercantile pursuits in Boston. Otis served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the Board ...

Bassett, Richard, 1745-1815

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Revolutionary statesman. From the description of Check signed : [n.p.], 1802 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873022 American lawyer; US Senator from Delaware;, 1789-1793; Governor of Delaware, 1799-1801 From the guide to the Richard Bassett check to Rev. William M. Tenant, 1799, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) U.S. senator from and governor of Delaware, Army officer, and jurist. From the description...

Ridgely, Abraham.

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