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RODNEY, CAESAR, President of Delaware, Signer (Delaware). Autograph letter signed ("Caesar Rodney," with flourish), to his brother, Thomas Rodney, Dover, [Delaware], 31 May 1773. 1 page, small 4to, 185 x 150mm. (7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.), integral address leaf in Rodney's hand, seal hole patched, the document neatly tissue encapsulated (a process similar to silking). Rodney, who played a key role in the 1776 vote for independence, discusses the rental of a store: "I have just time to tell you that Abraham Wynkoop has the letting [of] the store. Carson says he would have given it up to them but they Refused to take it off his hands... Abram has yet, near or quite three years in it [the lease]. That the time Barber had the Store He paid Wynkoop at the Rate of twenty pounds a year -- You will See Abram in Town [or]...May write to him..."
Rodney (1728-1784), a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, a militia officer and delegate to Congress, is famous for his last-minute journey from Delaware to Philadelphia on 2 July 1776, to allowed his state's delegation to vote for independence, thus making the vote unanimous on the part of the thirteen states. His death a year after the end of the war accounts for the scarcity of his autograph letters.
Rodney (1728-1784), a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, a militia officer and delegate to Congress, is famous for his last-minute journey from Delaware to Philadelphia on 2 July 1776, to allowed his state's delegation to vote for independence, thus making the vote unanimous on the part of the thirteen states. His death a year after the end of the war accounts for the scarcity of his autograph letters.