CHOICE, BOLDLY PENNED, GEORGE WASHINGTON FREE-FRANK SIGNATURE, ON A REVOLUTIONARY WAR ADDRESS PANEL

WASHINGTON, GEORGE. (1732-99).  First President of the United States. Manuscript Address panel Signed “G. Washington”, as Commander of the Revolutionary War Continental forces.  One page, oblong narrow octavo.  [approximately 4 ½ x 7 inches]. Mounted to a heavier backing.  Addressed to: “Royal Flint Esq,  / Asst. Commissary of Purchases / Fredericksburg”.  Washington’s franking signature is boldly penned in the lower left corner.  It reads:

          “To

                  Royal Flint Esq.

                                Asst. Comm^y purchases

                                                        Fredericksburg

                         G: Washington.”

 

Royal Flint (1754-1797) had an important role in the Continental Army in providing much needed supplies to the soldiers and officers. In 1775, the young Flint visited the Boston camps where Nathan Hale speaks of meeting him. In 1777, he was commissioned Paymaster of Col. Andrew Ward’s Conn. Continental Regt., which, in August, joined Washington’s Army at New York. This same year, Flint received the appointment of Asst. Commissary of Connecticut State troops, where he distributed clothing to the State’s soldiers in Putnam’s command on the Hudson in the fall of 1777, and later, at Valley Forge. In 1778, Congress commissioned him Asst. Commissary of Purchases, under Col. Wadsworth, Commissary-General. Flint retired from the army in 1780, sending his resignation to Washington.

After the war, from 1786 to 1789, Flint was U. S. Commissioner for settling the Continental accounts of the Eastern States.  Just a choice Revolutionary War George Washington free-frank. 

 

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