ArtDaily: Keno Auctions in NY to sell rare document discovered at Morris-Jumel Mansion.
“The document, entitled ‘The Twelve United Colonies, by their Delegates in Congress, to the Inhabitants of Great Britain,’ was written by Robert R. Livingston, who on June 3. 1775,was appointed by Congress, along with Richard Henry Lee and Edmund Pendleton, to compose an eleventh-hour petition directly to the people, not the government, of Great Britain. Because the manuscript’s changes and additions are intact, the dignified, proud, passionate and conflicting state of mind of the Colonists at the brink of the Revolutionary War is revealed.” Holy cow. How different things would be. Read the entire history (and context) of this episode, here.
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