Letter from Congress to the Governor of Rhode Island

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Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Letter, discusses pay due to veterans of the Revolutionary War.

Date

05/31/1785

Recipient

Sent from

Office of Secretary of Congress

Document number

1785053190101

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1

Notable persons

William Greene
Charles Thomson

Notable locations

Office of Secretary of Congress
United States

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honor to transmit to your excellency two acts of the United States in Congress assembled
pay due to the officers and soldiers of the different lines of the late army
legislature of the respective states to cause the service of the said agents to be examined and to make them such allowance as they think them
pleased to lay before the legislature of your state and communicate to me their determination that I may present the same to congress