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Patriot leader (1729–1824) in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its existence; Thomson was the only person to sign the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration alongside John Hancock. Manuscript DS, signed “Cha. Thomson Sec'y,” one page, 7.75 x 12.75, December 20, 1784. Headed, "By The United States in Congress Assembled," a resolution passed by the Continental Congress. In part: "That it is expedient the Congress proceed to take measures for procuring suitable buildings to be erected for their accommodation…[and] That a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand Dollars be appropriated for the payment of the expence of erecting such buildings, provided always that hotels or dwelling houses for the members of Congress representing the different States shall not be understood as included in the above appropriation." In very good to fine condition, with a short fold split to the left edge, and tears and paper loss to the top edge.
Following the Revolutionary War, the itinerant Continental Congress—having convened in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, and Trenton—sought a permanent seat of government worthy of the new nation. On December 20, 1784, Congress overturned a previous decision to establish alternating capital locations on the banks of the Delaware and Potomac Rivers, instead appropriating $100,000 for the construction of permanent capital buildings, signifying the commitment to establish a central and stable seat of government for the new nation.
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