Auction Date:2012 Jul 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed Revolutionary War-dated DS, one page, 11.5 x 8, November 6, 1776. Hancock, as President of Congress, appoints a Major to a regiment. Appointment reads, in part: “The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to Elijah Vors, Esquire. WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be Major in the Regiment Whereof John Peterson Esquire is Colonel, in the Army of the United States, raised for the defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging.” Attractively double suede matted and framed, with a portrait of Hancock and an informational plaque, to an overall size of 31 x 19. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a couple passing through signature, several repaired separations, scattered toning, handwritten portions a shade light, and a few other small repairs.
In November 1776, several months after signing the Declaration of Independence, Hancock signed this document appointing a major in Colonel John Paterson’s 1st Massachusetts Regiment. At the time he was president of Congress, which faced bleak prospects for the war: the Continental Army had suffered numerous setbacks and morale was low. In the next few weeks, Congress would abandon Philadelphia for Baltimore, and Hancock, his wife and their newborn daughter would relocate to Maryland. An exceptional document from the most important year in American history. Oversized.
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