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1818 Jan 16-31

Folder 41

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Identifier: Folder 41
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Four letters, from Benjamin Tallmadge and William Tallmadge to John Paine Cushman. Benjamin Tallmadge discusses Congressional business, including the case of John Anderson's attempted bribery of members of Congress, and updates Cushman on the activities and health of Cushman's young children.

In one of his letters to Cushman, William Tallmadge discusses search for employment.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776-1856

Tallmadge, Benjamin to John Paine Cushman, 1818 Jan 17

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Acknowledges Cushman's letter; directs his attention to the petition of John Delafield re: some Georgia loan office certificates which have been referred to the committee on Revolutionary War claims and pensions headed by John Rhea; asks for copies of some reports.

Dates: 1818 Jan 17

Tallmadge, Benjamin to John Paine Cushman, 1818 Jan 28

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Acknowledges Cushman's letter; remarks on tedium of the recent debated Congress; mentions the Commutation Bill and another relief of indigent American Revolutionary war veterans; reference to Gen. William Heny Harrison's eulogy on Gen. Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

Dates: 1818 Jan 28

Tallmadge, William to John Paine Cushman, 1818 Jan 22

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 Item — Folder: 41
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Mostly personal news of visits to Litchfield and elsewhere; recommends that Cushman look into the state of the army.

Dates: 1818 Jan 22

Tallmadge, William to John Paine Cushman, 1818 Jan 27

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 Item — Folder: 41
Identifier: Folder 41
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Inquires about the possibility of getting "a good fat office"; plans to go abroad in the spring; personal news.

Dates: 1818 Jan 27

Tallmadge, Benjamin to Maria Hallett Tallmadge, 1829 Feb 5

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Explains the disposition of Tallmadge's property to his wife Maria; has asked John Paine Cushman to set aside $500 for charitable purposes. Typescript copy.

Dates: 1829 Feb 5