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Creator
Blythe, Benjamin
Call number
MssCol 325
Physical description
.06 linear feet (1 volume)
Preferred Citation
Letter from Benjamin Blythe to John Nicholson, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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July 3, 1788 letter from Benjamin Blythe, at Cumberland County, to John Nicholson, at Philadelphia. Calls for a general convention of the state to meet at Harrisburg on Septmber 3, 1788, in order to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Endorsed by Nicholson This letter was printed in Paul Leicester Ford's ""The origin, purpose and result of the Harrisburg convention of 1788 : A study in popular government" (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1890)

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