Found in | Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Henry Laurens and John Laurens papers, 1732-1811 (John Lewis Gervais; b. 1741 in Hanover, Ger.; d. 1798; merchant, planter, and landowner; delegate to the provincial convention and Provincial Congress, 1775-6; member of the council of safety, 1775-76 and 1781; S.C. deputy postmaster general, 1778; served in the Revolutionary War; member of the S.C. state senate, 1781-82; member of the Continental Congress, 1782-83; commissioner of public accounts for S.C., 1794-95)
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