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Gen. Platt's vote on Mrs. Trumbull's petition : Fellow-citizens, What do you think of a man ... against whom ... calumny has not dared even to whisper ... that he voted in favor of Mrs. Trumbull's petition praying to be permitted, should she survive her husband, to take the lands, which he now holds in this state.

Other author/creatorDouw, John D. P. (John de Peyster), 1756-1835.
Other author/creatorFederal Party (N.Y.)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Albany] : [publisher not identified], [1810]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 21097. ^A575643
General noteFederal Party circular defending Jonas Platt's vote, in the New York Senate, in favor of a petition of Sarah Trumbull, "an English woman, an alien of course, whose husband [artist John Trumbull] is a native of Connecticut." Platt, candidate for governor of New York in 1810, "felt that his duty was a primary consideration, his election, but secondary."
General noteSigned: By order of the corresponding committee. John D.P. Douw, chairman. Peter Boyd, secretary. Albany, March 30, 1810.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 21097
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21097).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formCampaign literature 1810 Federal New York (State)
Other titleGeneral Platt's vote on Mrs. Trumbull's petition.

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