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Turner, Charles (1760-1839) to Aaron Hobart

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06313.04.111 Author/Creator: Turner, Charles (1760-1839) Place Written: Scituate, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 14 February 1821 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket : free frank ; 24.4 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Thanks Hobart for sending several papers and discusses a fishery bill. Mentions that Judge Thomas has died and Wilkes Wood has been appointed to succeed him. Asks Hobart to visit Edmund M. Blunts in New York and get him a copy of "Nautical et Ornance for 1820," which he could not find in Boston.

Charles Turner was a U.S. Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, 7th District, 1809-13.

Turner, Charles, 1760-1839
Hobart, Aaron, 1787-1858
Carlene, Daniel, fl. 1821-1822
Wood, Wilkes
Blunts, Edmund M., fl. 1821-1822

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