BIB_ID
101211
Accession number
MA 553.5
Creator
Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
Display Date
1781 Mar. 5.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 34.1 cm
Notes
Embossed with the seal of Pennsylvania.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Commanding him to sell the Brigantine Douglas and providing instructions for the distribution of the cash received; including an attestation, signed by Clement Biddle on the verso, of the sale and detailing the distribution of the proceeds per Hopkinson's orders.
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