James Lovell, John Jones, Gouverneur Morris, and Alexander McDougall. D.S. Philada. February 15th 1781 : to His Excellency the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

James Lovell, John Jones, Gouverneur Morris, and Alexander McDougall. D.S. Philada. February 15th 1781 : to His Excellency the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia 1781

[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 32 cm.

MSS L2013F48 M

Petition in an unidentified hand to the President of Pennsylvania, Joseph Reed, in support of a widow, Elizabeth Pettit, who requested permission to return to her home in then-British occupied New York City: "tho her Eyes must meet there again with Objects mortifying to her Love of the American Cause …"
Lovell (Mass.) and McDouglass (N.Y.) were members of Congress at the time; Morris was a Philadelphia lawyer; and Jones was a noted military physician.
Passport to return to New York which a docket indicates was granted.
Inlaid.
Digitized image available, see URL

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