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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Gent Baltimore 25th Janry. 1777
I shall attend your Summons with Pleasure for be assured nothing but my duty would induce me to stay in this vile place. In order to hasten the business of the Court I have directed Mr. Robinson (1) to issue the proper Writs and give Notice that a Court will be held on Monday the 11th of next Month. I am with real Esteem yr. very Hble Servt.
Geo. Ross
RC (DNA: PCC, item 78). Addressed: "Robt. Morris, Geo. Clymer, Geo. Walton, Esqrs."
1 Andrew Robeson (d. 1781), Register of the Pennsylvania Admiralty Court. The Executive Committee's "Summons" has not been found, but they obviously had asked Ross, judge of the court, to return to Philadelphia to hear a case in which they may have had an interest. Robeson usually inserted public notices of forthcoming cases in Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, but no issue containing notice of a case to be heard on February 11 has been found. During this period of Philadelphia's vulnerability to attack, the city's newspapers were published irregularly, and Dunlap printed no issue of the Packet between January 22 and February 4. Robeson's notices appearing in the latter issue pertain to cases scheduled to be heard on February 19 and 20.
This letter is the sole piece of evidence found to indicate Ross' motive for leaving Baltimore and helps to approximate the date of his departure. According to the journals he was absent January 29.JCC, 7: 68.
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