Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs (1789-1872) to William S. Holabird
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05636.40 Author/Creator: Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs (1789-1872) Place Written: New Haven, Connecticut Type: Letter signed Date: 11 July 1837 Pagination: 1p. : address : docket : free frank ; 32.5 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy
Ingersoll certifies that the the land of P. N. Fitzgerald and John E. Lunde is worth $2000 (writes in behalf of Gregory Anthony Perdicaris, recently appointed Consul to Athens, Greece). A letter from Perdicaris to Holabird is included on the same page, stating that the State Department requires Holabird to approve Perdicaris's bond.
Ingersoll was a United States Representative from Connecticut 1825-1832, Minister to Russia from August 1846-1848, and mayor of New Haven in 1851. Holabird was District Attorney for the State of Connecticut during the Amistad trial. Perdicaris was appointed United States Consul in Athens in 1837 and subsequently published a work in two volumes, The Greece of the Greek.
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