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Collection Reference Number GLC00819.26
From Archive Folder Constitution and Constitutional Convention archive: Pierce Butler's notes 
Title Committee report on trade and manufacture
Date September 1787
Author Butler, Pierce (1744-1822)  
Document Type Miscellany; Government document
Content Description Probably unrelated to the Convention and accidentally inserted by Butler into these papers. Consists of a report requested by Jefferson as U.S. Minister to France, while in Paris, and prepared for the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. The report apologizes for its figures, "all the Books of the Custom House being carried away by the British" when they captured Charleston in 1780.
Subjects Industry  Rebellion  Diplomacy  Government and Civics  France  Revolutionary War  Global History and Civics  Merchants and Trade  
People Butler, Pierce (1744-1822)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme Creating a New Government; Government & Politics; The American Revolution; Law; Merchants & Commerce; Banking & Economics; Industry
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information This collection of Pierce Butler's papers from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 provides unique views of the various conflicts that permeated the Constitutional Convention, while bringing to life the process of creating the United States Constitution.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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