RARE AUTOGRAPH OF BUTTON GWINNETT IS SURPRISE IN BETHESDAN'S GIFT TO YALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300010015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 24, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Rare Autograph of Button Gwinnett
1s $urprse in Bethesdan's Gift to YaIel
To the, complete surprise of Mr. Ben Davies One hundred
both donor and recipient, Yale and seven pounds fourteen ship-
University has reoeived a rare - ! lings & seven pence in Ballance
and valuable autograph of But- of all Accounts as witness my
ton Gwinnett: one of the signers hand-New York.
of the Declaration of Independ- (signed) Button Gwinnett"
ence. Mr. Colgate said last night
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Mr. Colgate, fully aware of the
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"They regard it as something p`p`4rf! earlier than previously believed
He was a delegate from Georgia
too mood to be true ? he said
1 tie later became Govgrnor or
ernxent analyst and a Yale 73 &, i eic~cn 4 that State
decided Class of 1935, recently Following a defeat of -Georgia
cideided to clean out an old attic
trunk that contained family) troops by the British in Florida
din 1777, Gwinnett and Gen.
papers dating from Revolution-' Lachian McIntosh were brought
ary war times. IAmong the papers, overlooked before a court of inquiry to de-
He sifted through the 100-odd b.v both the donor and his ap- termine which was responsible
papers and 300-odd nooks with praiser, was a handwritten re- for the military blunder.
the help of a professional ap- ceipt signed by Button Gwinnett. Gwinnett was found-guiltless
praiser. The tomes and docu- Gwinnett's signature is the and McIntosh, in a fit of rage;,
ments looked' interesting enough rare!t of all who signed the called Gwinnett a "scoundrel
to offer to the Yale Library Yale Declaration. Only 50 samples are and a lying rascal." A duel fol-
accepted.. known to exist. lowed on the outskirts of Sa-
Mr. Colgate thought no,arlor The receipt in the Colgate vannah and Gwinnett was
of it until he got an excited "callIcolleetion states: +wounded. He died three days
from Librarian James T. Babb. "Reed. october 12th 1762 of later.
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