HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer. Partly printed document signed with flourish as President of the Continental Congress, countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary, Philadelphia, 6 November 1776. 1 page, oblong 4to, slight fold separations mended from verso with cellophane tape, accomplished in manuscript. A 1776 HANCOCK SIGNATURE. Apppointment of William Valentine to the post of "Deputy Commissary-General for the Troops of So. Carolina in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof...." Due to condition, sold not subject to return.