MIFFLIN THOMAS Letter Signed Tho Mifflin as Governor of Penn

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FUNDING THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION MIFFLIN, THOMAS. Letter Signed, "Tho Mifflin," as Governor of Pennsylvania, to the Pennsylvania legislature, seeking to fund the new Presidential Mansion through a tax on carriages. 1 page, folio, with integral blank; silked on recto and verso, short closed separations at folds. Philadelphia, 25 February 1792

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Philadelphia served as the temporary national capital from 1790 to 1800 while the District of Columbia was being developed. In an effort to convince the federal government to remain in the city, Pennsylvania financed a massive presidential mansion on Ninth Street in Philadelphia. President Washington, a strong advocate of the new capital on the Potomac, refused to move into the building, which remained vacant during the entire Washington and Adams presidencies. It then housed the University of Pennsylvania from 1800 until it was razed in 1828. Provenance: Parke-Bernet's John Gribbell sale, 22 January 1941, lot 506.