Autograph Letter Signed Edm Randolph As Secretary Of State To Messrs Viar And Jaudens The Spanish

by Edmund Randolph

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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1p., plus integral blank. Docketed on verso. With: Autograph letter signed by the ship owner William Bartlett to Timothy Pickering, concerning the capture of the Ship Russell, dated October 27, 1795. Usual folds. Item #376337 In the midst of the French revolutionary wars, in January 1794 a Spanish fleet seized Fort Dauphin in Saint Domingue. That same year, in conflict with the United States over the navigation of the lower Mississippi and the

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