VAN BUREN MARTIN Autograph Note Signed MVB to Mr Dayton

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VAN BUREN, MARTIN. Autograph Note Signed, "M.V.B.," to "Mr. Dayton": "I wish you would prepare the Dispatch for Mr. Stevenson in regard to the Maine affair to day, that there may be no unnecessary delay after Mr. Forsythe arrives." 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; minor loss to right corners, folds. Np, "Wednesday" circa 1839?

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In March of 1839, President Van Buren ordered General Winfield Scott, and ultimately a force of 50,000 soldiers, to the border between Maine and British New Brunswick. The border had been in dispute since the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the threats expressed by the growing military presence as governments on each side of the border sought to protect its uncertain territory came to be known as the "Aroostook War," which was settled without bloodshed by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842.
During the "War," John Forsythe was Buren's Secretary of State, and Andrew Stevenson was the U.S. Minister to Great Britain.