Raynor HCA 2014-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/7/2014
ROSS, George (1730-1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. He was the last of the Pennsylvania delegation to affix his signature to the Declaration of Independence. He had been loyal to the King but he soon became disgusted with Tory politics and supported the cause of the Patriots. War-date Autograph Letter Signed "Geo. Ross" 2pp. folio, no date or place, addressed to his brother Getty, with good content pertaining to relatives even calling his brother and a friend as "Creowls" and asking them not to take offense. It reads in part: "..It was with the greatest concern I received the account of your illness and had I not been ill of this Govt at Philada. would have visited you at New Castle…I forever continue to preserve the most sincere & Brotherly affection for you, and though it is our fate to be settled at a distance from each other yet distance & absence which sometimes lessens the affections will never give the least abatement to mine…I fear the country you live in will shorten all your lives and even render them almost burdensome while you continue what I call just to breath & not to live…It would suit Mr. Till and you to come up here & spend some time in our fine wholesome air…" More. Professionally inlaid, fine condition.
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