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THOMSON, CHARLES, Secretary of the Continental Congress. Autograph letter signed ("Chas Thomson") to an unidentified correspondent, n.p., 5 October 1782. One page, small 4to. Fine condition. "On my return from Congress last Thursday I found a note from you informing that you were obliged to attend at Gloucester Court and that you had sent your boy over to receive the money that day promised which he would pay me. As he left no money I suppose he did not receive it which I assure you is a very great disappointment to me. I must entreat your attention to this matter. If you could favor me with it this day it will greatly oblige...."
Thomson (1729-1824), an early advocate of Independence, was chosen by the first Continental Congress as its Secretary and "for nearly fifteen years...sat...listening to the debates, minuting the birth-records of a nation....The great drama of the American Revolution as enacted on the stage of the Continental Congress he beheld as did no other man" (DAB).
Thomson (1729-1824), an early advocate of Independence, was chosen by the first Continental Congress as its Secretary and "for nearly fifteen years...sat...listening to the debates, minuting the birth-records of a nation....The great drama of the American Revolution as enacted on the stage of the Continental Congress he beheld as did no other man" (DAB).