As Murrka prepares to celebrate 250 years since perhaps the second-worst founding document in world history, the Dickinson-Barclay documents are up. The William and Mary Quarterly is examining them.
John Dickinson sent these to David Barclay Jr in London, the latter being perhaps best known for Barclay's Bank. John Dickinson was trying to alert Parliament - through London finance! - that New England's problems were serious.
From New England, we know better Hutchinson's Strictures (pdf). By then - 1776 - the disease had already spread as far south as Virginia and parts of the Carolinas. It could perhaps have been stanched at least before New York City and Long Island.
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