HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts), President of the Continental Congress. Letter signed ("John Hancock 1st Maj. Gen.," with paraph) to Joseph Otis, Brigadier General of the Militias of the County of Barnstable; Boston, 13 September 1779. One page, folio, address panel on verso, traces of wax seal, neatly silked, seal tear affecting a few letters. Hancock requests a list of officers in the Barnstable brigade: "I have rece'd such orders from the honl. The Major Part of the Council, as makes it necessary to make Application to you, and you will please immediately on Receipt of this to Issue your Orders for a full Return to be made of the Name, Rank & Place of abode of every officer in the Brigade under your command, as also what vacant offices there are in the Brigade...."

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HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts), President of the Continental Congress. Letter signed ("John Hancock 1st Maj. Gen.," with paraph) to Joseph Otis, Brigadier General of the Militias of the County of Barnstable; Boston, 13 September 1779. One page, folio, address panel on verso, traces of wax seal, neatly silked, seal tear affecting a few letters. Hancock requests a list of officers in the Barnstable brigade: "I have rece'd such orders from the honl. The Major Part of the Council, as makes it necessary to make Application to you, and you will please immediately on Receipt of this to Issue your Orders for a full Return to be made of the Name, Rank & Place of abode of every officer in the Brigade under your command, as also what vacant offices there are in the Brigade...."