Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SIGNED AS PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS HANCOCK, JOHN. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President of the Continental Congress, appointing George Weedon as Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Battalion of Virginia Forces. Countersigned by Charles Thomson as secretary. Oblong folio, 9 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; brittle, folds with minor loss, chipped at edges with minor loss of text at top, signature large and bold. Philadelphia, 13 February 1776