(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Correspondence of Connecticut merchant

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"A FOUNDATION IS LAYING FOR A FREE AND UNINTERRUPTED COMMERCE" (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Correspondence of Connecticut merchants Dudley and Samuel Woodbridge during the war. 9 Autograph Letters Signed, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1777-78

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Addressed to a mercantile firm in Norwich, CT dealing in rum, sugar, flour and other staples. Some of the letters address the difficulties of trading under blockade. Joseph Woodbridge of Groton, CT writes to his brothers of a ship which "has been wanting to come some time . . . & as the enemy keep a very sharp look out, and as you have formerly talk'd of insuring, would advise you to get the same immediately done" (9 February 1778). George Benson of Providence writes of "an invasion from the enemy which is daily expected, as we this day are informed of the arrival of a reinforcement at Newport" (13 June 1778). John Proctor of Boston hopes that "our much injured country will speedily be relieved from its distresses, that a foundation is laying for a free and uninterrupted commerce" (29 July 1778).