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folio, three pages, old folds, small hole in first page, affecting several words, paper a bit tanned, else very good, docketed in in ink: Copy of an Act for Surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the Illinois Regiment and establishing a Town within the said Grant.For Locating and surveying the one hundred and fifty thousand acres of Land granted by a resolution of Assembly to Colonel George Rogers Clarke and the officers and soldiers who assisted in the reduction of the reduction of the British posts in the Illinois; Be it enacted by the General Assembly that William Fleming, John Edwards, John Campbell, Walker Daniel gentlemen, and George Rogers Clarke, John Montgomery, Abraham Chaplain, John Baily, Robert Todd and William Clarke, Officers in the Illinois Regiment shall be and they are hereby constituted a board of Commissioners, and that they or the major part of them shall settle and determine the claims to Land under the said Resolution - That the respective claimants shall give in their… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. quarto, one page plus stamp-less address leaf, with Ingersoll's Free Frank as Member of Congress, in very good, clean and legible condition. ngersoll, a Pennsylvania statesman, writes about British philosopher John Locke and British imperialism in the Middle East. "Sir, Locke composed a constitution for South Carolina, but not for Georgia - such is my recollection. But you may ascertain all about it no doubt in Bancroft's history where it is all finely told with great ability. Beyrout and St. John D'acre now occupied, I believe, by the English are in what is called Palestine or Holy Land. Whether the English government mean to own those places, which is yr question, remains to be seen." Charles Jared Ingersoll, whose father signed the Constitution of the United States, was a Pennsylvania Congressman, one of the few Members of Congress with both foreign experience as attaché at the US Consulates in France and Germany and… Read More