Peter Verstille papers, 1770-1772.

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Peter Verstille papers, 1770-1772.

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These documents were affixed to blank pages, bound, and the resulting volume labeled "Wethersfield Papers Peter Verstille". An explanatory note on the first page describes the creation of the broadside that follows it, "A Dream". The "dream" was reportedly written by Peter Verstille in protest against a 1768 law collecting a five percent tax on goods imported to Connecticut. A manuscript version of the dream is on the following page. The next three documents relate to a riot in Wethersfield, Connecticut, that Verstille claimed was fomented by Silas Deane. Verstille wrote to Thomas Seymour requesting help, Seymour responded that he could not come to Wethersfield immediately and suggested Verstille write down the names of the participants, which he did in the third document. The instigators of the riot included not only Silas Deane by Caleb Bull, Joseph Webb and Barnabas Deane. The final document is a bill of exchange between Samuel Peters of Hebron, Connecticut, and William Lymond & Son of London, 1772.

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Connecticut Historical Society

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Deane, Silas, 1738-1789

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Silas Deane (January 4, 1738 [O.S. December 24, 1737] – September 23, 1789) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence. Deane served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, and then became the first foreign diplomat from the United States to France. Born in Groton in the Colony of Connecticut, he received a classical training before graduating from Yale College and studying law. ...

Peters, Samuel, 1735-1826

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Epithet: Secretary, Workmen's Committee for the Abolition of Foreign Bounties British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x0000cc The Jonathan Carver heirs claimed after his death that Naudowissee (Dakota) chiefs Hawnopawjatin and Otohtongoomlisheaw had granted Carver a tract of some four million acres of land on the east side of the Mississippi River running from St. Paul to the mouth of Wisconsin's Chippewa River...

Verstille, Peter

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Seymour, Thomas, 1735-1829.

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