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- GLC#
- GLC04377.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 May 1775
- Author/Creator
- Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810
- Title
- to Burgess Ball
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 18.4 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Griffin, managing Ball's affairs in England, states "we are finishing on your affairs with all imaginable dispatch ... Some of the Estates are considerably out of order- others are in tolerable good repair. I really can give no guess how they will sell, but they shall be sold by public Auction to the highest purchaser, it is the safest and most advantageous method..." States that he drew money from Dunlop and Wilson upon Ball's account. Comments that Ball is likely to profit from sending tobacco to England. Offers regards to Ball's family, requesting that Harry "remember me to all the Prachey's" in Richmond, Virginia. States "nothing new in the political world- only the People here seem to ridicule the Idea of resistance from America." Asks if Ball or his wife "have any inclination to tempt Fortune still farther."
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