REQUESTING THAT A FRIEND WRITE LETTERS ON HIS BEHALF TO GOVERNOR [JOHN] HANCOCK, MR. [JOHN] ADAMS, GENERAL [GEORGE] WASHINGTON, MR. STRONG, [etc.], in an autograph letter signed.
Salem, [MA]: 17 Feb. 1789. Single sheet, [1 1/2] pp., approx. 400 words, asking an unidentified friend to write letters to Hancock, Adams, Washington, as well as Ellsworth, [John] Langdon, and [Elbridge] Gerry, and anyone else he thinks "most likely to favor me through your interest" and promising to repay..... More