[PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENTS]. DICKINSON, JOHN, President of Pennsylvania & Delaware, delegate to Continental Congress, drafted Articles of Confederation. Autograph letter signed to the Consul General of France FRANÇOIS DE BARBÉ-MARBOIS, Philadelphia, 14 July 1785, 2 pages, 4to, integral blank, highly unusual letter to Napoleon's future minister of finance (who negotiated sale of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.), concerning a substantial sum owed to the orphan grandchildresn of the late Samuel Mifflin, which Charles Biddle, "member of the Supreme Executive Council" is seeking to collect: "Mr. Biddle's character is truely respectable..." VERY RARE -- JAMES HAMILTON, President of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council. Partly printed document signed, countersigned by Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General, Philadelphia, 20 June 1754, 1 page, oblong folio, accomplished in manuscript, fold defects, browned, granting 30 acres land in Warwick Township to John Shmuck -- THOMAS WHARTON, JR., President of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council. Autograph letter signed to Benjamin Fuller and John Wilcocks, n.p., 29 December 1777, 2 pages, folio, integral address leaf, separations at folds, ink faded, a lengthy letter in the wake of the death of his business partner, Stocker; the affair complicated by "the disputes subsisting between Great Britain & America," describing their interest in various ships, some of which "now lay up the Delaware" and "could not be fitted out in time to get them clear of the Enemy" and complaining of the "embarassment & distress which has been occasion'd...by General Howe getting possession of the Capital [Philadelphia]..."; together 3 items. (3)