May 27, 2020 Founders & Patriots
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/27/2020
Charles Biddle (1745-1821), as President of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth. Partially-printed, document signed, vellum sheet, 12 1/8 by 17 1/4 inches, with Commonwealth seal in the upper left-hand corner and docketed on recto, which also bears the extremely rare counter-seal of the state in its earliest configuration: the figure of Liberty trampling upon Tyranny, represented by a (British) lion, encircled by the legend "BOTH CAN'T LIVE." A land grant to "Daniel Campbell private late in the army of the United States" granting him "a parcel of land lying in the county of Westmoreland In the tenth district of the Donation Lands...Containing Two hundred Acres", dated April 9, 1787. An early and rare example of a Pennsylvania veteran's land grant, its recipient being a hard-fighting rifleman who fought in Hand's 1st Contiental (Rifle) Regiment at Long Island, Trenton and Princeton and later, as a rifleman under Daniel Morgan at Saratoga, continuing with the Rifle Corps on the Sullivan Expedition, the defense of the Mohawk Valley, Yorktown and finally, the Savannah and Charleston campaigns of 1782. CONDITION: some waterstaining to the lower margin, partly obscuring the word "April", but otherwise not affecting text; folds, light marginal soiling. JLK