Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 21, October 1 1783-October 31 1784

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Elias Boudinot to To: John Hancock

Sir,
Princeton 1st October 1783

I have the honor, in obedience to the commands of Congress, to enclose to your Excellency the certified copy of an Act of Congress in answer to a letter of the 11th of July I received from the Legislature of your State.(1)

The long delay that has attended this answer has been principally owing to the delicacy and importance of a subject, that, from its own nature, as well as from the respect due to so respectable a Body as the Legislature of Massachusetts, required the most serious deliberation.

It will give us great pleasure to find that honorable Body fully satisfied with our determination on measures that sensibly affect the common interest of the United States.

I have the honor to be &c. E. B.(2)

Note:

LB (DNA: PCC, item 16). Addressed: "His Excellency John Hancock, Esqr., Governor of Massachusetts."

1 For this enclosure and Massachusetts' July 11 letter to Congress, see JCC, 25:609-13; and the following entry, note 1.

2 Boudinot also wrote a brief letter this day to Samuel Hodgdon (apologizing for the damage his servant had done to Hodgdon's sulky), which is in Miscellaneous Manuscripts, NN.