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- GLC#
- GLC02300.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 October 1805
- Author/Creator
- Ellery, William, 1727-1820
- Title
- to George Wanton Ellery
- Place Written
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 17 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Written to his son at Captain Barney's School in Wickford, Rhode Island. Mentions positive reports concerning his son's progress in mathematics and also his improved health. Notes that his own skin disorder, identified as "ascorbatic Erysipelas, or St. Anthony's fire," may not improve as easily. A postscript indicates how to fold letters so that the seal does not cover the writing. A Member of the Continental Congress from 1776 until 1785, William Ellery was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was Collector of the Port of Newport from 1790 until 1820.
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