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- GLC#
- GLC01773
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 30, 1795
- Author/Creator
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
- Title
- to Sylvanus Bourne
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 9 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Delineates his plan to make a fortune selling, settling, and improving six million acres of American frontier land to be purchased by men and women in America and Europe seeking a new place to settle. Stresses the amount of money that shareholders can make by investing in this opportunity. Notes that "Every State in the Union is filling up faster than the most knowing people suppose." Letter addressed to Bourne in Amsterdam.
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