Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 to James Jackson

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GLC#
GLC08347
Type
Letters
Date
22 Sept 1798
Author/Creator
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Title
to James Jackson
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Responds on Adams " behalf to Governor of Georgia re: federal and state efforts to protect Georgia from French naval attack. Concludes vulnerability of Savannah is so high that using "gallies manned with negroes for working them and with white men to serve the guns, would form a better and cheaper defense" than the construction and manning of American forts.

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