HANCOCK JOHN Document Signed as Governor appointing James Su

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APPOINTING REPRESENTATIVE TO PRECURSOR OF US CONGRESS HANCOCK, JOHN. Document Signed, as Governor, appointing James Sullivan Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation. Countersigned by Secretary John Avery, Jr. 1 page, folio, with integral blank; two corners on verso glued to blank, complete separations at folds repaired verso with tissue, faint uneven toning to upper half, minor loss at upper edge, some brittling at edges, vertical fold through signature (without loss), faint scattered foxing, tiny holes at fold intersections, docketing on terminal page, paper seal mostly intact, bold signatures. Boston, 12 November 1783

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James Sullivan (1744-1808), Governor of MA in 1807, was elected in 1783 by the legislature of Massachusetts to be a delegate for the Commonwealth in the Confederation Congress (the governing body that succeeded the Continental Congress after the Revolutionary War and that preceded the first U.S. Congress). Members of the Confederation Congress from Massachusetts included John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and John Adams, but unlike these men, Sullivan did not attend a single session of the Congress, as he could not afford to travel to the various cities where the body met, including Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.