Governor Sir James Wright to James Edward Powell, February 19, 1776

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Scarborough at Cockspur, Feb. 19th, 1776

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Sir: Yesterday I received yours enclosing a letter from the Congress to the gentlemen of the Council in answer to what I wrote them, and desired might be communicated to the Congress and people in general. This letter I cannot consider as an answer to mine, as they have not taken any notice of the most serious part, with respect to themselves and the Province; but if they will not be their own friends, the Province will blame them and not me, who tluo' friendship put it in their power to be happy. . . . I am, with perfect esteem, Sir [&c.]

J. Wright.²

1. Allen D. Candler, comp., The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, 1908), I, 106-07. Hereafter cited as Candler, comp., Georgia Records. Sir James Wright was governor of Georgia. Powell was president of the Georgia Provincial Congress.

2. Ibid., Powell delivered this letter and Captain Barkley's (next entry) to the Georgia Council of Safety on February 21.

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Date

1776 February 19

Volume

Volume 4

Series

American Theatre from February 19, 1776, to April 17, 1776