Pierce Butler letter, 21 Jan. 1809.

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Pierce Butler letter, 21 Jan. 1809.

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The collection consists of an autograph letter signed and dated 21 January 1809 written by Pierce Butler, Philadelphia, to Petit de Villers, Savannah. It is concerned with damage done to one of his extensive holdings in Georgia. He says it "...would have been more gentlemanly - more neighborly in Mr. Spaulding, to have written to me, stating and real or supposed impropiety of Mr. Kings' (his manager) ..." He further says: "I will say nothing of the new Embargo Law: it is inexplicable to me how a Congress could be found to pass it."

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Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822

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Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 – February 15, 1822) was an Irish-American South Carolina rice planter, slaveholder, politician, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a state legislator, a member of the Congress of the Confederation, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention where he signed the United States Constitution, and was a member of the United States Senate. Born in County Carlow, Ireland, Butler pursued preparator...

Petit de Villers, F. D.

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