Hancock, John (1737-1793) [Promotion of George Clark to Second Lieutenant of a Company of foot in the seventh Pennsylvania regiment].
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01253 Author/Creator: Hancock, John (1737-1793) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Document signed Date: 19 March 1777 Pagination: 1 broadside 34 x 22 cm Order a Copy
Countersigned by Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson. Official document promoting Clark. Partially printed, with blanks filled in by hand. Hancock signed as President of the Continental Congress.
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