ROSS, George, Signer (Pennsylvania) . Autograph letter signed ("Geo: Ross") to his brother, Getty, n.p., n.d. 2 pages, folio, 298 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½in.), evenly browned, neatly inlaid, otherwise in good condition. Ross writes: "It was with the greatest concern I received the account of your illness and had I not been ill of this Govt. at Philada. [probably the Colonial legislature] would have visited you at New Castle...I forever continue to preserve the most sincere & Brotherly affection for you, and though it is our fate to be settled at a distance from each other yet distance & absence which sometimes lessens the affections will never give the least abatement to mine." He continues in this affectionate tone: "I long to see you & my dear little nephew...I fear the country you live in will shorten all your lives and even render them almost burthensome while you continue what I call just to breath & not to live." He extends an invitation to "spend some time in our fine wholesome air," and concludes with good wishes for the family members. Ross (1730-1779) was a successful attorney in Lancaster, was elected to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was active in government and the law until his death in 1779. His autograph letters are very rare (ABPC records a single example since 1976).
ROSS, George, Signer (Pennsylvania) . Autograph letter signed ("Geo: Ross") to his brother, Getty, n.p., n.d. 2 pages, folio, 298 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½in.), evenly browned, neatly inlaid, otherwise in good condition. Ross writes: "It was with the greatest concern I received the account of your illness and had I not been ill of this Govt. at Philada. [probably the Colonial legislature] would have visited you at New Castle...I forever continue to preserve the most sincere & Brotherly affection for you, and though it is our fate to be settled at a distance from each other yet distance & absence which sometimes lessens the affections will never give the least abatement to mine." He continues in this affectionate tone: "I long to see you & my dear little nephew...I fear the country you live in will shorten all your lives and even render them almost burthensome while you continue what I call just to breath & not to live." He extends an invitation to "spend some time in our fine wholesome air," and concludes with good wishes for the family members. Ross (1730-1779) was a successful attorney in Lancaster, was elected to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was active in government and the law until his death in 1779. His autograph letters are very rare (ABPC records a single example since 1976).
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