Letter, 1793 May 9, Cambridge, Maryland to Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania].

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Letter, 1793 May 9, Cambridge, Maryland to Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania].

Relates details of prize ship, taken from British by a French privateer, sent up the Choptank to port of Oxford; customs officer, Col. Banning datained ship; Capt. John Hooper showed commission to a Capt. Ferey, a French citizen but it did not seem sufficient; tried to act by commercial treaty.

3 p. on 1 leaf ; 24 cm. x 40 cm.

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