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JA's draft also in PCC, No. 47, fols. 129–148 and printed in JCC, 5:575–589; see JCC, 6:1124, "Bibliog.," No. 121 for note on this contemporary printing; there is a note on this document in JA's Autobiog.: 129.
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From the collection: RG 59: General Records of the Dept. of State, Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789