Message from the President of the United States, in Relation to the Present State of the Pea-Patch Island, in the Delaware River [with] Report from the Secretary of War, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, in Relation to the Claim of Henry Gale and others to the Pea Patch Island
Washington: Blair & Rives, 1838. Disbound. near Very Good binding. Item #9886
Octavo. 4, 50 pp. Removed from binding. Old binding material to the inner margin; a few leaves precede the printed messages with manuscript table of contents of what the full sammelband once contained, now just these two documents 28 and 140 of the 25th Congress, 2nd Session. The latter work contains numerous court documents and testimony related to Pea Patch and the ownership thereof, a legal battle that would last a decade and bring work on the fortification to a halt.
Price: $95.00
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