Historical Documents

STEPHEN HOPKINS (1707-85) Signer of Declaration of Independence. DS, "Step Hopkins", 1p, Aug 16, 1755, 7 1/2"X4 1/2", Newport, t...

JOHN MORTON (1724-77) Signer of Declaration of Independence. AES, "John Morton Sheriff", 1767, 12mo, clipped from an arrest warrant. Inlai...

ELBRIDGE GERRY (1744-1814) Signer of Declaration of Independence; member of the famous X Y Z mission to France. DS, "E Gerry", as Governor...

ELBRIDGE GERRY DS, "E Gerry", as Governor of Mass, 1p, Feb 3, 1812, folio, appointment of Alden Spooner as Justice of the Peace in Bristol...

JOHN PENN (1741?-88) Signer of Declaration of Independence. LS, 1p, nd, legal folio, petition to Richard Caswell (1729-89), Governor of North Carolina

JOHN PENN Endorsement signed, "J.P. atto", on verso of a May 3, 1784 document, Granville County, North Carolina, endorsing a summons addre...

ROBERT TREAT PAINE (1731-1814) Signer of Declaration of Independence. Partly printed DS, "Paine, Atty", 1p, 1768, 12mo, bill for his servi...

JAMES WILSON (1742-98) Signer of Declaration of Independence. Partly printed DS, signed "Wilson" on verso, 1p, Oct 27, 1776, oblong 8vo, C...

ROBERT MORRIS Draft ALS, signed "RM", 1p, April 25, 1803, 8vo, New Brunswick, NJ, to Robert Colefax, nice content re a wounded soldier. In...

ROBERT MORRIS (1734-1806) Signer of Declaration of Independence; financed the purchases of Washington's Army during the Revolution. LS, "Ro...

THOMAS MCKEAN (1734-1817) Signer of Declaration of Independence. DS, "Thos McKean", as Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1p, July 4, 1794, la...

THOMAS MCKEAN DS, "Theo McKean", as Governor of Penn, 1p, Mar 13, 1807, oblong folio, on vellum, land grant for a parcel named "Thriv...

RICHARD STOCKTON (1730-81) Signer of Declaration of Independence. ADS, signed at conclusion "Richard Stockton Atty for Plff" and twice mor...

FRANCIS LEWIS (1713-1803) Signer of Declaration of Independence. ALS, "Fra: Lewis", 1p, May 28, 1761, 4to, New York, nice content re the s...

WILLIAM HOOPER (1742-90) Signer of the Declaration of Independence. ADS, "Will Hooper Attrn Dom Reg", as the King's attorney, 1p, Sept...

LYMAN HALL (1724-90) Signer of Declaration of Independence. DS, 1p, Dec 18, 1753, folio, financial bond. "Know all men...that I Nathan Hulbert ...

JOSEPH HEWES (1730-79) Signer of Declaration of Independence. DS, signed in full at conclusion and again in the text, 1p, Dec 27, 1766, 4to, Chowan Co

FRANCIS HOPKINSON (1737-91) Signer of Declaration of Independence. DS, "F Hopkinson", 1p, Mar 1, 1779, 8"X4", Continental Sight ...

JOHN DUNLAP (1747-1812) Irish/American printer. From 1771, he was the publisher of "The Pennsylvania Packet", which became the first daily...

HENRY LAURENS (1724-92) American Revolutionary statesman; President Continental Congress (1777-78); captured by British on way to negotiate with Dutch