Lot 1035
1775 New Jersey Militia Commission, partly-printed form, 13¼ x 8, October 24, 1775, commissioning one "Doctor Ebenezer Elmer" a "Third Lieutenant of a Company of Light Infantry in the Second Battalion of Foot Militia in the county of Cumberland which Jonathan Elmer Esqr. [Ebenezer’s brother] is Captain…", signed boldly by Samuel Tucker as president of "The Deputies of the Several Counties of New-Jersey in Provincial Congress". Fine condition with reinforced splitting along some folds.
Estimate 500 - 750
Elmer was a New Jersey physician and politician, a U.S. Representative from N.J. (1801-07) and the last N.J. survivor of the Society of Cincinnati. His brother Jonathan was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a U.S. Senator (1789-91).
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