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- GLC#
- GLC01412.08-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 24 June 1782
- Author/Creator
- Hanson, John, 1715-1783
- Title
- [Certificate of appointment to rank of major general]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 29 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Partially printed document appointing William Heath to Major General in the Continental Army (Heath was previously a Major General of only Massachusetts troops and Brigadier General in the Continental Army). Signed by John Hanson as President of the Continental Congress and countersigned by Benjamin Lincoln as Secretary of War. Marked "No. 1" at the top above an embossed paper seal of the Department of War.
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