<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Andrew, Benjamin, 1730-1799</dc:creator><dc:creator>Clay, Joseph, fl. 1773</dc:creator><dc:creator>DeVeaux, James</dc:creator><dc:creator>Elbert, Samuel, 1740-1788</dc:creator><dc:creator>Gibbons, William, 1750-1800</dc:creator><dc:creator>Houstoun, William, 1755-1813</dc:creator><dc:creator>Jones, George, 1766-1838</dc:creator><dc:creator>Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805</dc:creator><dc:creator>Telfair, Edward, ca. 1735-1807</dc:creator><dc:creator>Wood, Joseph, fl. 1777</dc:creator><dc:date>1773/1798</dc:date><dc:description>Eight Georgia-related Continental Congress pieces. The pieces are: 1.) D.s. by Noble W. Jones and Joseph Clay, a printed certificate for the "sum of twenty-shillings, being issued for the purposes mentioned in an Act entitled 'An Act for granting to his Majesty the sum of Four Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety-nine Pounds,'" dated "Georgia, 1773"; 2.) D.s. by General Samuel Elbert, March 15, 1785, certificate for bounty of land; 3.) D.s. by Benjamin Andrew, Savannah, June 22, 1785; 4.) A.L.s. by Joseph Clay, Savannah, March 4, 1773, on commercial matters including the sale of salt; 5.) L.s. by W. Gibbons, Joseph Clay, and US Senator George Jones, Savannah, March 12 [14], 1798, regarding the appointment of Tax Collector for Chatham Co.; 6.) D.s. by Edward Telfair, April 6, 1784, regarding land warrants; 7.) Two autograph receipts, signed by William C. Houston, April 15, 1786, on verso of a bill for legal fees; 8.) D.s. by Joseph Wood, on verso of a bill rendered to Georgia by James DeVeaux, January 19, 1777, bill is for boat hire for the "use of the detachments doing duty on the Skidoway &amp; Hoseba islands."</dc:description><dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Correspondence</dc:subject><dc:subject>Generals--Georgia--Autographs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Governors--Georgia--Autographs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Legislators--Georgia--Autographs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Legislators--Georgia--Correspondence</dc:subject><dc:subject>Politicians--Georgia--Autographs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Politicians--Georgia--Correspondence</dc:subject><dc:subject>Real property--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States. Continental Congress</dc:subject><dc:title>Continental Congress collection</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>