Theodorick Bland (1742-1790), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to St. George Tucker, 1782
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- Box 9, Folder 8
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Arrived here the 11th. Brethren engaged in Indiana affairs. Virginia's claims safe and will be wrested from her only in mode she herself prescribed. Promoters, the Indiana claimers, are trying to accumulate money by sale of shares and acquire an accession of interest by obtaining a greater number of proprietors. Mr. Paine has written some pieces in favor of their claims. Requests St. George to have inserted in Virginia papers a paragraph that Virginia has ceded the land to the U.S. under certain restrictions and not to individuals and that Congress has taken no steps to confirm unfinished grants of the British King to politic individuals. April 23. Terms for peace have been offered to belligerent powers by mediating powers, but rejected by Great Britain. France willing to accept them for sake of peace. Finds picture of Mr. Randolph by C. W. Peale is eight guineas instead of six. Below salutations written: (No.1)
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