Thomas Mifflin Promissory Note Signed for $6,000
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Thomas Mifflin Promissory Note Signed for $6,000
1p, measuring 7.5" x 3.75", No place, dated April 2, 1788. A promissory note signed "Thomas Mifflin", addressed to an unknown person. Reading in full: "Record of Wager & Habacker there indorsement to my note for Six Thousand Dollars wich [sic] I promised to pay when due at Bank." The note has been tipped into a slightly larger sheet, measuring 8.5" x 5.5" overall. With flattened folds and faint edge toning. Large and bold signature.
Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800) was an American merchant, soldier, politician, and Founding Father. He joined the Continental Army after serving in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the Continental Congress. During the American Revolutionary War, he was an aide to General George Washington and the Continental Army's Quartermaster General, eventually rising to the rank of major general. Mifflin returned to Congress in 1782 and was elected president of the Continental Congress in 1783. He became the first governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799, and was also the last president of Pennsylvania, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and serving from 1788 to 1790.
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