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1776 APPOINTMENT
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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) HANCOCK, JOHN. Partly-printed Document
Signed, as President of the Continental Congress, military commission appointing David
Hobby “Captain of the Sixth Company of the Third Regiment of the NewYork Forces.”
Countersigned by Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson. 10x13 inches; complete separa-
tions at few folds with some loss to text incompletely repaired verso with silk, vertical fold
touching Hancock signature (without loss), even toning and brittling overall, some loss at
fold intersections, some chipping at upper and right edges.
[Philadelphia], 26 February 1776
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