Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to Timothy Pitkin, 1800 Dec. 12.

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Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to Timothy Pitkin, 1800 Dec. 12.

Letter to Pitkin in Farmington (Conn.) reports that the electors for Jefferson and Burr in South Carolina have been chosen by a majority of thirteen and contends that "it would have been easy to have made a union for Jefferson and Pinckney."

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South Carolina Historical Society

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