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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 Height: 34 cm, Width: 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.

Hancock, John, 1737-1797

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