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SOLD BY THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE UNITED STATES; RUFUS KING (1755-1827)
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America….
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THE UNITED STATES; RUFUS KING (1755-1827)
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America….
[Philadelphia: John Dunlap and David Claypoole, 13 September 1787]. With annotations and corrections in the hand of Rufus KING (1755-1827), delegate from Massachusetts and a member of the Committee of Style. Docketed, “second printed plan,” in the hand of Nicholas GILMAN (1755-1814), delegate from New Hampshire.
Four pages in two bifolia, 422 x 255 & 422 x 259mm respectively. Ink and pencil annotations to first bifolium. Ink docket and pencil notations on verso.
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America….
[Philadelphia: John Dunlap and David Claypoole, 13 September 1787]. With annotations and corrections in the hand of Rufus KING (1755-1827), delegate from Massachusetts and a member of the Committee of Style. Docketed, “second printed plan,” in the hand of Nicholas GILMAN (1755-1814), delegate from New Hampshire.
Four pages in two bifolia, 422 x 255 & 422 x 259mm respectively. Ink and pencil annotations to first bifolium. Ink docket and pencil notations on verso.
Provenance
Rufus King (autograph annotations)
Nicholas Gilman (autograph docket)
(by lateral descent to) John Gardinier Gilman
(presented in 1903 to) The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire.
Nicholas Gilman (autograph docket)
(by lateral descent to) John Gardinier Gilman
(presented in 1903 to) The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire.
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Peter Klarnet
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