Letter, March 9, 1798.

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Letter, March 9, 1798.

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Letter to Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Northwest Territory, discusses military and diplomatic issues, some of them related to a rumored Spanish invasion of the Illinois area.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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