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- GLC#
- GLC01512.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 26, 1841
- Author/Creator
- Tyler, John, 1790-1862Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Title
- to Joshua Spencer
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Letter signed by Tyler as President and Daniel Webster as Secretary of State. Tyler offers information concerning Canadian Alexander McLeod to Spencer, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York. States that Henry Fox, Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, transmitted an official communication to the United States Government stating that McLeod, accused of murdering several Americans, was acting as a military agent under orders.
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