OF ELBRIDGE GERRY. With Contemporary Letters. TO THE CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY JAMES T. AUSTIN. STANFORD LIBRARY BOSTON: WELLS AND LILLY-COURT-STREET. 1828. 260536 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of March, A. D. 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Wells and Lilly of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "The Life of Elbridge Gerry. With Contemporary Letters. To the close of the American Revolution. By James T. Austin," In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an Act entitled, “ An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, 4 CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Appointed Judge of Admiralty in Massachusetts........Letter declining the Appointment........Correspondence with Sam- Member of the Committee of the Treasury........State of the Finances........Paper Money........Loan Offices........Lot- First project of Independence........Correspondence with Major Hawley........With General Warren........Impedi- Letter communicating the Declaration of Independence......... Received with joy in Massachusetts........ Character of the Act.......Committee of Congress visit Camp........Letter from |