Raynor HCA 2014-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/7/2014
WILSON, James 1742-1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution, where he represented Pennsylvania. A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States. War-date Autograph Letter Signed "James Wilson" 1pp. folio, Philadelphia, May 6, 1783,addressed to Edward Burd, it read in part: "…We proposed to have attended at Chester at least during some part of the Session: But the Arrangements in the Court of Appeals render it impossible for us to be of any service to our clients. Will you be good enough to mention this to the Judges, and to the Attorney General, that no Causes which can possibly be postponed may be tried in our Absence?..." Very good condition.
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