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September 12, 1782

Robert R. Livingston, circular to the governors, with the resolution

Governor Harrison’s copy of the instruction, with the resolution of September 10 attested by Charles Thomson. The enclosure missing from the Franklin Papers survives here.

Where it is kept
Library of Virginia, Executive Papers of Governor Benjamin Harrison, GLR03767 (reel 16, frames 192 to 194).
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Detail: the attested resolution