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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00770-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 14 June 1779
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- [News of British defeat in South Carolina]
- Place Written
- Monroe, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written in the clerical hand of Samuel Shaw. Begins with a note attesting that General Nathanael Greene received payment on an account from Colonel Cox in Philadelphia. The second copied document, also on page one, is an extract of a letter from Levi Hollingsworth to William Bradford (possibly the Philadelphia printer) 11 June 1773 regarding an enclosed [handbill] of great importance. The third document, possibly a copy of the handbill to which Hollingsworth referred, comprises the end of page one and page two. Relates "Important News" from 9 June 1779: "the agreeable intelligence of the defeat of the British Army from Georgia before Charleston South Carolina..."
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