Nov 03, 2011 - Sale 2259

Sale 2259 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
LOAN FOR CITIZENS FLEEING THE ENEMY MCKEAN, THOMAS. Letter Signed, "Tho M:Kean, President," as President of the Continental Congress, to President of Pennsylvania Joseph Reed, circular letter, sending two acts of Congress [not present] from July 23 and 24 "for the purpose of procuring a loan of thirty thousand dollars for the distressed Citizens of South Carolina and Georgia, who have been driven from their country and possessions by the enemy and are lately arrived in this city . . . ." 1 page, 4to, with integral blank. Philadelphia, 25 July1781
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As part of the British plan to recruit the many Loyalists in the Southern Colonies, military operations shifted focus away from the North, leading to the capture of Savannah in 1778 and including the Siege of Charleston in 1780.
McKean (1734-1817) was a Signer from Pennsylvania, who became President of the Continental Congress, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and Governor.