A 29 July 1761 autograph letter signed

by the future first elected leader of the State of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War, Thomas Wharton Junior by Thomas Wharton Jr.

$750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Signed

Quebec: 1761. Letter. This is a 1761 autograph letter signed by the Philadelphia merchant who, 16 years later, would become the first elected revolutionary leader of the state of Pennsylvania. The letter is humbly eloquent testimony to the essential political role of the merchant class in the American Revolutionary War.The man who would later serve as commander in chief of the Pennsylvania militia and work “closely with George Washington to strengthen the defenses of

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