Lot 807
New York Assembly Resolution On General Clinton's Troops. Manuscript Document, being the Minutes of the New York Assembly and signed by its secretary, Robert Benson, 1¼pp, recto and verso, 7¾ x 13 in., In Senate, New York, February 15 and 16, 1780. Some minor separations at folds, but overall fine. The minutes read: "Resolved…the House of Assembly concur here that his Excellency the governor be requested to write to Brigadier General James Clinton desiring him to assure the Officers and Soldiers of the Troops of this state in the Service of the United States, that the Legislature have a high sense of their Services - that they have paid a due attention to their Memorial and that they are now devising Ways and Means to provide them with Clothing and necessaries and to make them a suitable Compensation at the conclusion of the War."
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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