REQUESTING THAT A FRIEND WRITE LETTERS ON HIS BEHALF TO GOVERNOR JOHN HANCOCK, MR. JOHN ADAMS, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, MR. STRONG, etc. , in an autograph letter signed

by Samuel Williams

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Salem, MA : 17 Feb. 1789. Single sheet, 1 1/2 pp., approx. 400 words, asking an unidentified friend to write letters to Hancock, Adams, Washington, as well as Ellsworth, John Langdon, and Elbridge Gerry, and anyone else he thinks most likely to favor me through your interest and promising to repay him for the expense of paper & what ever you think proper shall be refunded. The letter does not make the matter entirely clear and his correspondent is not identified, but it is

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