Initially a Tory, he served as Crown Prosecutor for twelve years and was elected to the provincial legislature in 1768. There his sympathies began to change and he became a strong supporter of the colonial assemblies in their disputes with Parliament. He was a member of the Committee of Safety and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was a Colonel in the Continental Army, and vice-president of the first constitutional convention for Pennsylvania. He resigned from the Continental Congress in 1777 because of poor health, and was appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Admiralty, in which office he died. DS, signed “G: Ross,” one page, 8 x 12.5, July 1752. Ross was twenty-two at the time. Legal document from the July 1752 term concerning a trespassing charge against John Potts, with the financial settlement of eighty pounds. Boldly signed at the conclusion by Ross. In very good condition, with silk tape reinforcement to weak folds and separations, even overall toning, a bit heavier in the folds and some areas of paper loss at junction of folds. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
