Mercer, John F., 1759-1821 to George Weedon

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GLC06491.03
GLC#
GLC06491.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
1 April 1783
Author/Creator
Mercer, John F., 1759-1821
Title
to George Weedon
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Relays information related to the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution. Discusses the possibility of a separate peace being brokered that does not include France. Also discusses the insincerity of some British protestations (revealed in the Robert Livingston - Guy Carleton correspondence) supposedly meant to curb blood shed, "which has disgraced the British Councils thought this war." Comments on the British in New York.

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