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Colonial Currency, DAVID BREARLEY Signed 1780 New Jersey $3 Guaranteed Issue Note Ch CU

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Colonial Currency, DAVID BREARLEY Signed 1780 New Jersey $3 Guaranteed Issue Note Ch CU
Famous Signers on Colonial Currency
June 9, 1780 New Jersey Three Dollars “Guaranteed” Note Signed David Brearley & Philemon Dickinson & Joseph Borden
DAVID BREARLEY, (General) PHILEMON DICKINSON & (Colonel) JOSEPH BORDEN. Signer of the U.S. Constitution for NJ; Revolutionary War Brigadier General, and Continental Congressman from Delaware; Senator from NJ; and Delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, repectively.
State of New Jersey. June 9, 1780. Three Dollars. Colonial Currency Note. “Guaranteed” by the United States Issue. Signed by both David Brearley and Philemon Dickinson. Fully Signed and Issued, it also includes on the back “Guarantee” line an official signature by Joseph Borden (Member of the Stamp Act Congress) for the United States. Very Choice Crisp About Uncirculated. Fr. NJ-186. This red and black printed note is well centered, having bold brown ink signatures. It is of premium quality being very fresh and clean with the sharp edges and overall eye appeal. See more information about these signers in our online version.
David Brearley (June 11, 1745 – August 16, 1790) was a Delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and Signed the U.S. Constitution on behalf of New Jersey. With the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Brearley was at first a captain in the Monmouth County militia after having spent many years speaking out against the Parliamentary absolutism. He eventually rose to the rank of colonel in Nathaniel Heard's New Jersey militia brigade. From 1776 to 1779 he served in the New Jersey Line of the Continental Army, seeing action at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. Brearley resigned from the army in 1779 to serve as the New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice, succeeding Robert Morris. He decided on the famous Holmes v. Walton case where he ruled that the judiciary had the authority to declare whether laws were unconstitutional or not. After signing the Constitution in 1787, he headed up the New Jersey committee that approved the Constitution. In 1789, he was a Presidential elector and on September 25, 1789, he was nominated by President George Washington to be the first federal district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739 – February 4, 1809). American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a Brigadier General of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware (1782-83) and a United States Senator from New Jersey (1790-93).

Colonel Joseph Borden (1719-1791). His father, also named Joseph, settled in New Jersey in 1717 when the town was called Farnsworth Landing, renaming it “Borden's Towne,” and later “Bordentown.” The home was damaged when it was burned by the British Army in their May 8, 1778 raid, but then later restored. Joseph Borden played a number of roles, both political and military, during the Revolutionary War era. In 1765, he was one of three representatives for New Jersey for the Stamp Act Congress. In 1775, he represented Burlington County in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. He was a Colonel of militia early in the Revolutionary War, and then served as the Continental Congress Treasury Loan Officer for New Jersey.