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Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware. Microform supplement
[3A] ([1978])
Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811
Thomas Rodney to Caesar A. Rodney, Poplar Grove, 14 June 1788, pp. 353-357
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353 4 GThomas Rodney to Caesar A. Rodney, Poplar Grove 14 June 1788 Your Letters of the 20th, 22d. & 23d. of May were the last that came to hand, one of them inclosing your Taylors bill Ell"lls"7, which [I] Intend to send the Money to discharge by the first Safe opertunity--I recd: your letters while the Assembly was Sitting & therefore have been too much Engaged to Answer them before--I Should not have been so Tardy in remitting Some Money to Mrs. [Maygaw?] but Corn has been So low, that I could not lend Mine without Selling to a great loss--Your Sister is at home and at work She and Sally on your Shirts, which will be ready Shortly to Send you--The House of Assembly Adjournd the day before yesterday; and Yesterday I went to the Plantations to See how things went on there; The Season hitherto has been very fertile and promises a very find Crop of Wheat Oats and flax if no Accident Should prevent it--I have been very little unwell Since I returned from up the Country, and hope it will continue So with Me through harvest which will Occasion me two or three Weeks fatiague--Your Sister has had two or three fits of the Ague but has got very well again-- I wrote you to Send her a Cookery book but am a fraid you have not recd: the letter, it went by Dani. Mifflin; She is
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