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Allen, John, 1797-1798

Folder 2

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One letter written by Congressman John Allen to Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797) and four written to Julius Deming, a local merchant.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1797-1798

Allen, John to Wolcott, Oliver, 1797 May 16

Item 1

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Letter to Governor Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797) accepting his election as a Representative of the state of Connecticut to the fifth congress.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1797 May 16

Allen, John to Deming, Julius, 1798 May 2

Item 2

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Scope and Contents John Allen reports from Philadelphia to Julius Deming about Congressional reactions to the disclosure to Congress of the XYZ dispatches; provides detailed discussion of the debates in Congress and condemns the behavior of the republican leadership; calls them Jacobins and charges that they betray the country the way Athens’ statesmen sold their nation to Philip the Macedonian; suspicions that some republican congressmen are being bribed by France; warns Connecticut not to elect a...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1798 May 2

Albany Argus, 1825 Aug 23

Folder 2

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Handwritten copy of obituary of Roger Skinner, 1773-1825.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1825 Aug 23

Freeman, Frederick, Rev. obituary

Folder 2

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Obituary of Rev. Frederick Freeman from 1884.  Includes handwritten copy and newspaper clipping.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found within 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906

Allen, John to Deming, Julius, 1798 May 24

Item 3

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Scope and Contents John Allen writes to Julius Deming from Philadelphia about political affairs in the context of the deteriorating relations with France; a direct tax seems unavoidable; commissioners will probably be expected by President Adams to serve in volunteer corps, but a Connecticut law prohibiting officials from serving in two capacities will cause difficulties; feels the US needs to prepare for war; and condemns the opposition. The President has not heard back from the commissioners to France, but...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1798 May 24

Allen, John to Deming, Julius, 1798 May 24

Item 4

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Identifier: Item 4
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John Allen reports to Julius Deming that a bill for national defense has passed the Senate; encloses an example from the Aurora of Jeffersonian opposition to the Federalist measures; comments on the ill effects of the French conquest of Switzerland; charges that the tyrants of France have destroyed all the republics of Europe and that the US is next.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1798 May 24

Allen, John to Deming, Julius, 1798 Apr 11

Item 5

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Identifier: Item 5
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John Allen sends Julius Deming copies of the XYZ dispatches from France. (The dispatches are not present in the collection).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1798 Apr 11