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MS050 B02 F16.08 |
Title |
Samuel Livermore to John Langdon |
Scope & Content |
One page letter from Samuel Livermore in Philadelphia to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Samuel Livermore, 1732-1803, was Attorney-General for New Hampshire and subsequently, a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. Reports of a mutiny in the Pennsylvania line in being asked to march on Virginia, but "the extraordinary good conduct of Genl. Waine" [Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796] suppressed it. Four of the ringleaders were immediately executed. Others received sentences of death, but may be pardoned. "This reduced the line to perfect order." he mentions the affir, he says, lest it be represented to Langdon in the light it was at first mentioned in Philadelphia, as much worse than it was. "It is said that three of the villains executed were deserters from the Brittish." The whole line, consisting of 1200 men, has now gone to join the Marquis Fayet [LaFayette] in Virginia. He relays news of the death of Genl. Phillips of the Britsh in Virginia. he mentions that his son George and his servant Joshua bab have been innoculated against the smallpox. Dated May 29, 1781. |
Collection |
John Langdon Papers |
Object Name |
Letter |
Date |
May 29, 1781 |
People |
Langdon, John, 1741-1819 Livermore, Samuel, 1732-1803 Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 Livermore, George, dfl. 1781 Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 Phillips, William, 1731-1781 |
Search Terms |
Philadelphia |
Subjects |
Continental Congress Delegates Virginia Mutinies Executions Deserters Smallpox |