BIB_ID
132244
Accession number
MA 557.37
Creator
Mathews, John, 1744-1802.
Display Date
1797 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.3 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Summary
Resigning from his position as a judge because of the "severe fit of illness [he] got on the last Circuit"; noting that he has "served the Public uninterruptedly for upwards of Thirty years."
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