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Lot 416
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock"), partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, as Governor of Massachusetts, counter-signed by John Avery Jr. as Secretary, docketed on verso by Benjamin Lawin,19 September 1791.
1 page, embossed paper seal upper left, creased at folds with some losses, silked along folds on verso, stained. Appointing Jonas Holden Jr. as Captain of a company in the 4th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division of the Massachusetts Militia in Middlesex County.