Letter
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Title
1780.06.05 – Charles Phelps Jr. to Elizabeth Porter Phelps, June 5, 1780
Description
Charles Phelps Jr. writes to his wife, Elizabeth Porter Phelps, about his business in attending court and performing tasks laid out by Congress for an entire day, including an election. The Constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was ratified on June 15, 1780, ten days after the date of this letter, and although Charles does not specify the public business that brought him to Boston, it seems likely that this letter is about the process of ratifying the Massachusetts constitution, work he says “is not yet completed.”
Creator
Charles Phelps Jr.
Source
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 4 Folder 3)
University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives
Date
1780-06-05
Rights
public domain
Type
Correspondence
Transcription
Boston June 5th 1780
My Dear,
I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint you that I am well–we arrived in Boston on Wednesday last at Eight o’clock attended the Election at eleven and have constantly attended the court since–we have Business Before us of consequence from Congress which is not yet completed although we worked from eight in the morning till after nine at night yesterday–(which I much question the propriety of)–I hope you are as comfortable as when I left you–and family–am very anxious for you, But as I have heard nothing from you, hope that no news is good news, I expect to set out for Franklin on Friday or Saturday morning next, am determined not to return to Boston before I see Hadley
In the mean time I commend you–family–and all our concerns to the protection of divine Providence– and am my dear your most cordial friend —
Charles Phelps
To
Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps
Hadley
by the PM to be left
at Mr. Thomas Smith’s, Hadley
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