(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) CLINTON GEORGE Manuscript vellum Docum

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) CLINTON, GEORGE. Manuscript vellum Document Signed, "Geo:Clinton," as Governor of New York, appointing Abraham Ten Broeck "First Judge of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be holden in and for our County of Albany. . . ." With 3 1/2-inch wax pendant Great Seal attached. Approximately 6 1/4x19 inches; moderate fading to signature, markedly toned overall, faint offsetting from seal recto. Poughkeepsie, 26 March 1781

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Before being elected vice-president in 1804 and 1808, Clinton (1739-1812) was a New York delegate to the Second Continental Congress, served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general, and became the first (non-colonial) governor of New York.