BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LAND GRANT SIGNED 05/24/1787 For Sale
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LAND GRANT SIGNED 05/24/1787:
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HistoryForSaletm Autographs & ManuscriptsMake an Offer Today and Get a Quick Response!Take a Look at This Week\'s Specials!BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LAND GRANT SIGNED 05/24/1787 - HFSID 286026BENJAMIN FRANKLINThe Founding Father signed this document that grants a piece of Philadelphia land to Jacob Long for £2/12/6 - in 1787, less than four months before he signed the ConstitutionLand Grant Signed: "B Franklin" as President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1p, 15½x13¼. On vellum parchment. Dated May 24, 1787. Countersigned: "James Trimble/ for John Armstrong Jun Secry". Begins: "Know Ye that in Consideration of the Sum of Two pounds twelve Shillings and Six Pence lawful Money paid by Jacob Long into the Receiver Generals Office of his Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said Jacob Long A Certain Tract of Land called \'Kingsale\' Situate on Brushy Run a Branch of Chartiers Creek in Washington County…" This fascinating document shows that it was still business as usual, in many respects, for the Constitutional delegates, even during one of the most important moments in American history. A "Hickory" and a "Spanish Oak" are also mentioned as landmarks. JACOB LONG is listed in the "Negro Slave Registry of Washington County, Pennsylvania" as owning "Jack Jordian a male Slave aged 28 years" in an entry dated five years earlier, December 26th 1782. JAMES TRIMBLE was deputy secretary of the Supreme Executive Council. He was deputy secretary through all the administrations from 1777 until 1837. Trimble aided in packing and removing the state papers when the British occupied Philadelphia in the Revolutionary War. A member of the Continental Congress from 1775-1776, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) signed the Declaration of Independence and was President of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1776. He was sent as a diplomatic commissioner to France by the Continental Congress and later served as Minister to France (1776-1785). Franklin was one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain ending the Revolutionary War. He was President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania 1785-1788 and a delegate to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. On Monday, May 28th, Benjamin Franklin took his seat at the Constitutional Convention. Almost four months later, on September 17, 1787, after addressing the delegates ("I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve…") Benjamin Franklin and the other delegates signed the new Constitution. Full, fine paper seal. Related filing notes on verso. Horizontal and vertical folds. Lightly soiled and stained touching Franklin\'s signature. Folds, vertical fold between "John" and "Trimble". Lightly rippled. Heavily soiled and shaded on verso. See more material from these signers:BENJAMIN FRANKLIN See more listings in our U.S. POLITICIANS (3,973) category.
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