Letter : to John Dickinson, [Philadelphia], 178[2?] Aug. 4.

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Letter : to John Dickinson, [Philadelphia], 178[2?] Aug. 4.

Autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet. Letter of recommendation for Captain Stewart Herbert written to John Dickinson, President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

1 item (2 p.) ; 21 cm.

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Texas Christian University

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Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

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John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [O.S. November 2, 1732] – February 14, 1808) was a Founding Father of the United States. A solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, he was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768. Born at his family's tobacco plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, Dickinson was educated at home by his parents and by recent immigrants employe...

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

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Born in Thurso, Scotland, 1734, o.s. ; studied medicine in Edinburgh; served in the British Army in America, 1757-1762; surveyor of Cumberland, 1770; colonel of Pennsylvania militia, 1775; brigadier general, 1777 to the close of the Revolution; commander of the Army, 1791-1792; delegate to the Constitutional Congress, 1785-1787, and president, 1787; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; died in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. (Bio. Cong. Dir., 1928 ed. ; Dic. Am.Biog. --gives b. date, 17...

Butler-Gunsaulus Collection (University of Chicago. Library)

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Herbert, Stewart, fl. 1782.

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