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Document Signed. Franklin, Benjamin. N.p., March 14, 1788. 1 p., folio, 13 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (336 x 393 mm), vellum with three, largely intact, paper seals. Land patent in Washington County, Pennsylvania for George Vallandigham. Document occasionally lightly or moderately darkened, Franklin's signature clear & generally dark (occasionally slightly abraded).
Vallandigham, Lieutenant Colonel George (ca. 1737-1810), early settler & soldier on Pennsylvania's western frontier, helped to lead several expeditions against the American Indian allies of the British during the Revolutionary War; direct ancestor of Clement Laird Vallandigham, leader of the Peace Democrats or "Copperheads," strongly opposed to Lincoln's Civil War policies.
In his last public office, Benjamin Franklin served from October 1785 to October 1788 as President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - in effect the Commonwealth's governor.