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Declaration of Independence Signer Matthew Thornton 1768 Londonderry NH Document:
$1999.99
This document was drafted and signed twice by Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Matthew Thornton on October 27, 1768. He drafted this Londonderry, NH land document as Justice of the Peace and signed it twice; once as a witness, once as Justice of the Peace. In the first line of the document \"I Matthew Pinkerton\" ( You can see where Matthew Thornton started to write his own name. The P in Pinkerton you can see he corrected the T to a P). It was purchased out of a local familys estate along with several other 18th century pre-statehood New Hampshire deeds. One of the other documents drafted and signed by Matthew Thornton was for his father in law Andrew Jack and has the signature of his wife Hanna (Jack) Thornton as witness. This sale is for the one document of Matthew Pinkerton\'s land. Guaranteed 100% authentic. The ink is strong, It was kept in adocument box for the majority of its existence,away from sunlight andhandling.On the back ofthe document it is written where the deed was recorded in 1833 and below, writtenin pink or faded red ink the deed was copied 12-13-1893.This is aguaranteed 100% authentic 1768 original document, hand written by MatthewThornton and signed twice.The 12 images inthis listing are photos, not scans. If you would like more pics or questions answered please email.About theFounding Father:Matthew Thornton(March 17, 1713 – June 24, 1803) was an Irish-born signer of theUnited States Declaration of Independenceas a representative of New Hampshire. He was one of only eight men to sign the Declaration of Independence born outside of America.He was first President of the New Hampshire House ofRepresentativesand Associate Justice of the Superior Court.He was elected to theContinental Congress and was one of the 56 signers.Matthew Thornton is the lastsignature on the bottom right of our Declaration ofIndependence.Matthew Thornton was a doctor and opened up his practice in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1740.During the King George\'s War he served as a military surgeon for the Fort Louisburg expedition, a major campaign that ended with the capture of the French Fort at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.Following his tour of duty, Thornton returned home to Londonderry.Under the royal government, he was invested with the office of justice of the peace, and commissioned as colonel of the militia.In 1758, he was chosen as a delegate to the colonial assembly where he represented Londonderry.Thornton penned the document that would serve as New Hampshire’s first state constitution.He was appointed the President of the New Hampshire Provincial Congress when it was first assembled in 1775 and also elected the Chairman of the Committee of Safety which was in charge of raising munitions andrecruiting militia for the colonyat times of war.He took an active part in the overthrow of the royal government in New Hampshire, being prominent in the agitation against the Stamp Act.He was chief justice of the court of common pleas, and from 1776 till 1782 a judge of the superior court of New Hampshire. He was elected speaker of the assembly on 5 January, 1776, and on 12 September the legislature chose him as a delegate to the Continental congress. He was one of the last founding fathers to sign the document, his signature is the last one on the lower right of the Declaration of Independence. He remained in the continental congress for another year, having been reelected to represent New Hampshire.Thornton returned to New Hampshire in 1779 and settled his family on a farm in Merrimack County, relinquishing his medical practice.He served as an associate justice of the superior court, a state senator, and in 1785 was appointed a member of the council. From the adoption of the state constitution till his death he was a justice of the peace until he was sixty-eight and when he was in his seventies, he was in the state senate.He retired to his farm and wrote political articles for newspapers.