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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Jacob Read papers, 1778-1813 (bulk 1783-1786)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Read, Jacob</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1752-1816</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>29</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, commission, military orders, legal and financial papers chiefly from the years Read served as delegate to the U.S. Continental Congress (1783-1786).  Subjects include the Revolution, confiscation of Loyalist property, the Peace of Paris (1783), and politics in South Carolina.  Correspondents include Richard Peters and Jacob Read's brother, William.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Delegate to the U.S. Continental Congress, U.S. senator, and army officer of South Carolina.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peters, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1743-1828</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Read, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1754-1845</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>1783 September 3.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Congress.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American loyalists</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 80003552</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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