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Official records of the original colonies and the early United States. The First Continental Congress (1774) addressed "intolerable acts" by the British. The Second Continental Congress (1775-1781) created the Declaration of Independence and the first national government. The Congress of the Confederation (1781-1789) followed. Read important papers, letters, treaties, and reports--famous and obscure--relating to the formation of the new nation, as penned by the founding fathers. Continue…
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9th Sept 1782
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9th Sept 1782
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Joseph Brant
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A letter in part in Dumas' cipher (see Roll 72, Vol. 1, Page 117). English translation is printed in Wharton. One portion reads: 207 [,] 80 [q] 10 [u] 108 [e] 235 [m] 74 ['] 2 [o] 14 [n] 15 [t] 92 [e] 124 [c] 17 [r] 16 [i] 33 [t] 5 [e] 11 [s] 4 [l] 13 [e] 12 [s] 76 [m] 21 [i] 14 [n] 431 [i] 39 [s] 34 [t] 25 [r] 26 [e] 44 [s] 20 [d] 29 [e] 22 [f] 46 [r] 19 [a] 27 [n] 28 [c] 32 [e] 69 [a] 18 [l] ...more
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to Mr. Adams, who will take means to forward it to you by a safe hand. I am in great pain on account of your / letter of the 28th of July, a duplicate of which is arrived. The / original has miscarried. Should it have fallen into improper / hand it may do us very essential injury. I need not tell you / how impatient I shall be to hear that this has reached you, since I / can not use my cypher till I receive a line from you written in it, nor can I write with freedom to you till I have a cypher.
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station. As you will have much leisure on hand, I must beg / you to write weekly to this office in cypher and to write with / freedom whatever it may be useful for us to know, particularly / all changes that may take place in the administration and / the measures of Russia. I will not repeat what I have said / on this subject in my last, a quadruplicate of which is / enclosed, as is also a cypher. This letter will be consigned /
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As part of the resolution of Congress of / the 12th instant, enclosed in the above letter, is / of a secret nature, I have wrote it in cyphers; / and not having Mr. Livingston's, I thought it best / to use Mr. Morris' to you, which he has obligingly / supplied me with, so that the commissioners must / be indebted to you for the decyphering of it.
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Samuel Hill
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