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William Paterson and Henry Knox Document Signed

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William Paterson and Henry Knox Document Signed
<B>William Paterson and Henry Knox Manuscript Document Signed</B></I> "<I>Wm Paterson,</B></I>" "<I>H Knox,</B></I>" "<I>Benjn Henfrey,</B></I>" "<I>Wm Bingham,</B></I>" "<I>W Macpherson,</B></I>" "<I>Anthy W. White,</B></I>" and "<I>James Chambers,</B></I>" one page, 6.5" x 8". No place, March 13, 1795. In the hand of Benjamin Henfrey. In part, "<I>Memorandum that we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed to Covenant promise and agree with Each Other to use our Separate and Joint Interest in Obtaining a right of preemption for the Lands mentioned in A Book known by the Title of Carvers Travels and Where he mentions having seen Vast Quantities of Virgin Copper…</B></I>" American explorer Jonathan Carver published the first edition of his <I>Travels through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768</B></I> in 1778, the first English description of the upper Great Lakes and Mississippi region. In his book, Carver wrote about traveling in northwest Wisconsin: "a considerable river falls into the lake Superior , the head of which is composed of a great assembly of small streams. The river is remarkable for the abundance of virgin copper to be found on and near its banks." <BR><BR><B>William Paterson,</B></I> a signer of the Constitution, was U.S. Senator (1789-1790), Governor of New Jersey (1790-1793), and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1793 until his death in 1806. <B>Henry Knox</B></I> was Washington's first secretary of war (1789-1794). <B>William Bingham</B></I> represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress (1786-1788) and U.S. Senate (1795-1801) and was also a land surveyor in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York; Binghamton, N.Y., is named in his honor. In 1802, <B>Benjamin Henfrey,</B></I> an Englishman who had emigrated to Pennsylvania, patented a method of making gas light and demonstrated his "thermo-lamp" in Baltimore, Richmond, and Philadelphia. <B>William Macpherson</B></I> was surveyor for the port of Philadelphia, Philadelphia port inspector (1792), and Philadelphia naval officer (1793). During the Whiskey Rebellion (1794), he was in command of a battalion of Philadelphia volunteers called "Macpherson's Blues." <B>Anthony W. White</B></I> served in the Continental Army in the American Revolution and as <I>aide-de-camp</B></I> to General Washington. In 1794, President Washington appointed White a general in the cavalry in the Whiskey Rebellion. Mounting strip on verso; a mid-vertical crease just touches the "<I>A</B></I>" of "<I>Anthy.</B></I>" Fine condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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