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Partly-printed DS, signed “Will'm Henry Harrison,” one page, 12 x 7.25, June 13, 1808. As governor and commander in chief of the Indiana Territory, Harrison appoints Chambers Forster "to be a Justice of the Peace, in our county of Dearborn.” The lower left retains the original embossed paper seal. In very good to fine condition, with some chipping to the edges, and old repairs on the back of the three vertical fold separations.
Harrison had been serving as the Congressional Delegate from the Northwest Territory when John Adams appointed him Governor of the Indiana Territory. Adams, who believed Harrison to be politically neutral, made the nomination without informing him first. Harrison only agreed to assume the position after receiving assurances from Jeffersonians in Congress that he would not be removed from office after they came to power in the election of 1800. Much of Harrison's tenure as governor was consumed with extinguishing Indian titles culminating in the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809 and Tecumseh's War in 1810 and 1811. Harrison's defeat of Tecumseh in 1811 earned him the title Tippecanoe (after the battle of the same name). During the election of 1840, ‘Tippecanoe & Tyler Too!’ became a popular campaign slogan.
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