Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania (1719–1806). Manuscript DS, one page, 7.25 x 6.5, May 6, 1788. Legal document, in full: “Be made in the Above Payment then we Do hereby Impower any Attorney within the States of America to Appear for us and Confess Judgments and Issue Execution for the Same as well in Our Absence as if we were personally Present as witness our hands and Seals the Sixth Day of May one thousand seven hundred & Eighty Eight 1788.” Signed below by Smith, and countersigned by Andrew Jamison and witnesses James Dickensen and Rebekah Hook. Reverse docketed with receipt payments, with one mentioning Smith, “Rec’d July 22nd 1789 of Mr. James Smith by the Hands of Andrew Barrett the sum of One Hundred & two pounds ten and six pence.” In very good to fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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