Superior partly-printed DS, signed “B. Franklin,” one page, 7.75 x 9.5, September 22, 1785. Pay order to Treasurer David Rittenhouse, in part: "Pay to Adam Christ Invalid, or Order, the Sum of Two pounds being due to him for one Quarter's Pension, according to the Comptroller General's report, and an Act of Assembly dated the twenty-second Day of September, 1785." Boldly signed in ink by Franklin as president of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and countersigned in the left margin by Comptroller General John Nicholson. Handsomely mounted and matted with an engraved portrait of Franklin to an overall size of 22.5 x 14.5. In fine condition, with some scattered faint staining.
The act of September 22, 1785, provided for pensions to invalid veterans of the American Revolution, as well as war widows. Adam Christ, a sergeant, was wounded in the Battle of the Brandywine on September 11, 1777. A spectacular, boldly signed Benjamin Franklin document.
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