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Creator
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799
Call number
MssCol 11567
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation
Admiral Lord Richard Howe papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Memorandum of interviews held during the Staten Island Peace Conference between Lord Howe and delgates from Congress Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge dated September 11, 1776. In the handwriting of Henry Strachey. Also includes a note dated August 21, by Strachey, relating to the preliminaries of the Battle of Long Island, and one letter from Howe to an unidentified correspondent dated November 2, 1775

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