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In this private letter, George Washington asks if either Charles Cotesworth Pinckney or Edward Rutledge will accept the office of Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court (recently vacated by John Rutledge).

Letters from John Rutledge, President of South Carolina, to the state delegates in the Congress of Philadelphia. Topics include the fall of Charleston, Thomas Sumter's victory at Hanging Rock, patriot and British troop strengths in South Carolina,…