Letter to Mary Seward from John Seward

John Seward · March 29, 1776

John Seward sent this letter, dated March 29, 1776, to his wife Mary, who lived in Sussex County. In this single page letter, Seward writes of his recent arrival to New York City and how the American soldiers are preparing to defend themselves against the British army. The letter bears no postal markings but was sent during period of operations of the Constitutional Post, and the absence of endorsement to named carrier and the impersonal form of address on the cover, "these with care" may suggest that it was conveyed in the mail.