BIB_ID
127313
Accession number
MA 553.19
Creator
Read, George, 1733-1798.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.0 cm
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Joshua Clayton was the Governor of Delaware.
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.
Signed with his seal and witnessed by James Booth, Secretary of the State of Delaware with his signature.
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.
Signed with his seal and witnessed by James Booth, Secretary of the State of Delaware with his signature.
Summary
Resigning his Senate seat in order that he is able to accept the "office of Chief Justice either of the Supreme Court or of the Court of Common Pleas or that of Chancellor...supposing that I might render more essential Service to the Citizens of the State in either of the s'd capacities than in that of Senator to the United States."
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