Rufus King Archives

Authors: Rufus King

1789–1825

Letters Protesting the Louisiana Purchase

Source: Rufus King to Colonel Pickering (November 4, 1803) in Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume 3, Max Farrand, ed. (Yale, 1911), 399-400 ; Timothy Pickering to Rufus

Letter from Rufus King to Elbridge Gerry (1786)

We go on in Congress as when you left us. Three days since October only have nine States been on the Floor. Eight are now here, when we shall have