Lot 4047
McKean, Thomas (1734-1817) Signer of the Declaration of Independence; 2nd President of the United States in Congress Assembled, and the first president to be elected under the Articles of Confederation. As President of Congress in 1781, McKean received Washington's dispatches announcing the surrender of Cornwallis. Manuscript Document Signed ("Tho M:Kean"), Philadelphia, March 19, 1790, one page, folio. Being the petition of George Pierce for the vacant position of "High Constable" of Philadelphia. McKean and 35 other men recommend Pierce "as a person we think well qualified to execute said office of high Constable." Among the other signers of the petition are J[ared] Ingersoll, signer of the U.S. Constitution, Isaac, Joseph, and Charles Wharton, Moses Levy, and Revolutionary War officer Sharp Delany. An unusual petition; some show-through from signatures on verso, else fine.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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