Advising A Former Congressman That He Had Been Elected To The Massachusetts Society For The

by Temperance Circular Letter

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4to. One-page, with an integral leaf addressed to Nathan Read of Belfast, Maine. The letter promises the inclusion of a copy of the society’s constitution and a list of the original members, neither included here. Founded in February of 1813, OCLC records the annual report and the society’s constitution for that year, but, apparently, not this letter for membership. Read 1759-1859 served in Congress, from Massachusetts, 1800-1803, and was a well-regarded judge, farmer, and

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