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Lot of Five Signed Letter From Educators

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Lot of Five Signed Letter From Educators
<B>Lot of Five Signed Letter From Educators,</B></I> including: F. A. P. Barnard, president of Columbia College (now University); John Hays Hammond, professor of mining engineering at Yale University; Alonzo B Cornell, eldest son of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University; Jeremiah Day, president of Yale College; and, by far the most interesting document is a letter from Dr. Jonathan Edwards to Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, dated June 26, 1775, in which Edwards complain that British General Sir Frederick Haldimand comes and goes to New York unmolested. Edwards asks that American General David Wooster be apprised of the situation. Trumbull was chaplain of Wooster's army. General Wooster was the mastermind for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in New York on May 10, 1775. In July 1775 he gathered troops on the Hudson River for an invasion of Canada. On the reverse of the Edwards letter, in another hand, is the notation: <I>The Numbers which are to compose the Army to take Post at or Near Hudson River will be nearly as followeth From New York 3,500 From Connecticut 1,700 From New Jersey 1,000 A Small Number from Philadelphia 600</B></I> <BR><BR> This was the core of the American army of invasion. <BR><BR> The Cornell signature is lightly smudged and the Edwards letter is glued to a larger sheet, else all fine. <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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