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John Dickinson and Thomas McKean letter to Caesar Rodney
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Letter from John Dickinson and Thomas McKean, delegates to the Continental Congress, to Caesar Rodney, then President of Delaware. Writing at the direction of Congress, Dickinson and McKean request Rodney appoint a sufficient guard to take custody of sixty-four prisoners captured aboard the British sloop-of-war Harlem.
Box 2, F0054: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes
A digitized copy of the letter is available at the University of Delaware Digital Institutional Repository.
Purchase, October 1988.
Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, June 2015.
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- 2015 June 1
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