Letter from Colonel Robert Quarry to William Blathwayt, 1703, June 26.

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Letter from Colonel Robert Quarry to William Blathwayt, 1703, June 26.

Robert Quarry's report to William Blathwayt containing his accounts of the "Courts of Juidcature in Pennsylvania" and William Penn's government, the affairs of Guadalupe, the Carolinas, St. Augustine, Port Royal, New York, and Virgnina, and a description of "all the Queen's Govenors meeting once a year."

18 pages, 33 cm., bound in an extra-illustrated volume.

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