[Letter] 1784 Aug. 22, Port Tobacco [to] Jacob Reed / Rich.d D. Spaight.

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[Letter] 1784 Aug. 22, Port Tobacco [to] Jacob Reed / Rich.d D. Spaight.

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The letter concerns his difficult journey homeward towards South Carolina from Philadelphia, complicated by a fever and "still labouring under the disagreeable feelings of uncertainty." Transcription available. -- Also, Spaight's signature on the title page of Edward Gibbon's: History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, v. 6, Dublin, 1781.

[2] p. ; 23 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Read, Jacob, 1752-1816

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Delegate and Senator of South Carolina; colonel in Revolution; served in S.C. House, 1781-1782, 1789-1794; Speaker of S.C. House, 1789-1794; delegate in Continental Congress; Federalist U.S. Senator, 1795-1801; judge of U.S. Court of the District of S.C., 1801-1816; husband of Catherine Read; brother of William Read (1754-1845). From the description of Jacob Read papers 1752-1816. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 44399358 Delegate to the U.S. Continental C...

Spaight, Richard Dobbs, 1758-1802

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Spaight was a delegate to the U.S. Contential Congress, 1782-1785, from North Carolina, as well as the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787, and signator to the U.S. Constitution. He was Governor of North Carolina, 1792-1795, held other public offices in the North Carolina and was in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1798-1801. From the description of [Letter] 1784 Aug. 22, Port Tobacco [to] Jacob Reed / Rich.d D. Spaight. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 433579619 Dele...