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SIGNERS, PENNSYLVANIA]. WILSON, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Wilson") to Arthur St. Clair (newly named Governor of the Northwest Territory), Philadelphia, 14 November 1788. 1 page, folio, 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 7.7/8in.), autograph address panel with intact wax seal . Fine. Wilson, named associate Supreme Court justice the following year, recommends a student: "who studied Law some time under my direction, and means, if he receive encouragement, to become an inhabitant of the Western Country. He is regularly admitted an attorny here. Permit me to recommend him to your good offices. You will find him sensible, attentive and alive; and you will oblige me by showing him countenance, and confering on him such services as may be in you power." -- MORTON, John. Autograph manuscript signed ("John Morton"), 8 March, 1770. 1 page, 4to, 205 x 193mm (86 x 7.5/8in.), partial fold separations . A land survey, with a plat of the land, and a description: "The above is a Draft...of land in Callcoonhook assigned to Andrew Boon and Martha his wife as their share of their mother Margaret['s]...dower." -- MORTON. Partly printed document signed, ("John Morton Speaker"), 6 April 1776. 1 page, oblong folio, 215 x 336mm (86 x 13¼in.), accomplished in manuscript . Boldly headed "In Assembly," printed seal and motto "Liberty, Safety & Peace." Appointment of Morton Garret as "Lieutenant of a Company of Foot in the Battalion of Musketry." A Morton dated 1776 is uncommon. -- MORRIS, Robert. Autograph letter signed ("Robt Morris") to William Patterson, Philadelphia, 26 December 1778. 1 page, 4to, 241 x 195mm (9¼ x 7.11/16in.), integral autograph address panel . Morris, Chairman of the Congress' important Committee on Finance, acknowledges "your favour...enclosing your draft on Mrssrs. Sargenton & Patterson of Martinique for the balance due me in that place being £3917.3.5...agreeable to the State of the amount you furnished me." Patterson, a Baltimore merchant, furnished substantial supplies to the continental army throughout the war, most significantly during the the Yorktown campaign. Boldly penned. -- CLYMER, George. Autograph letter signed ("Geo Clymer") to William Rawle n.d. 1 page, 4to, 193 x 160mm (7.5/8 x 6.1/8in.), integral autograph address panel . Docket on verso: "Relative to assault on Major Humphreys." Possibly refering to David Humphreys, aide-de-camp to Washington and later his personal secretary, Clymer writes of an assault on one of General Hand's officers "who has been greatly abused in the execution of his duty. The district Judge being out of town I called on Mr Wilson to take the examination of the Officer - but doubting whether he could properly do it, he referred me to you for your opinion...should you think the case lies before him, he will attend to it in the morning, if not, I will endeavour to get Mr. Peters." (Another Clymer letter, to Tench Coxe, on the assault on Humphreys, was sold at Christie's, 14 May 1985, lot 60). (5)