Nicholas Fish, A.L.S. Headquarters [Newburgh, N.Y.], Feby 15 1782 [i.e. 1783] : to Henry Glen Esqr. Schenectady [N.Y.]

Nicholas Fish, A.L.S. Headquarters [Newburgh, N.Y.], Feby 15 1782 [i.e. 1783] : to Henry Glen Esqr. Schenectady [N.Y.]

[Newburgh, N.Y.] 1782 [i.e. 1783]

[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 21 cm.

MSS L2017F3 M

Fish writes "the idea of peace is now universally embraced, and indeed the King's speech to his Parliament places it beyond a doubt ... That by virtue of the power invested in him by Parliament, he had consented to the Independence of the United State of America, and had authorized his Minister at Paris to ratify the same, as an article in the general Treaty… he speaks feelingly of the debt, accumulated by the war, and mentions the necessity of oecomony & retrenchment in public expenditures to promote which he will willingly yield up a part of his own Revenue. He recommended to the notice & provision of Parliament, those Loyalists, who, from an attachment to the British crown & government have suffered, & must greatly suffer, in their property from the War...."
Misdated 1782 on docket; the King's (George III) speech to Parliament referred to was in Dec. 1782.
Nicholas Fish, a major in the Second New York Regiment, became an original member of the New York Society.
Second New York Regimen was in Newburgh, N.Y. through the winter of 1782-1783.
Henry Glen served as deputy quartermaster general during the revolutionary war.
Partial red wax seal remains.

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