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WHIPPLE, WILLIAM, Signer (New Hampshire). Autograph free frank ("Free W:Whipple") on folded cover sheet (letter not present), addressed in Whipple's hand to "The Honble Josiah Bartlett Esq. Kingston New Hampshire," n.d. [partial recipient's docket of 1779], no postmark, clean tear to one flap, otherwise in very good condition.
SIGNER TO SIGNER
A fine frank on a boldly written cover sheet, which carried a letter between two influential New Hampshire delegates, both of whom signed the Declaration of Independence. Bartlett left Congress after the 1778-1779 term, pleading fatigue and old age, but served as chief justice of the court of common pleas from 1779. Whipple wrote frequently to Bartlett. Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, ed. E.C. Burnett, prints over a dozen letters of Whipple to Bartlett in the eventful year 1779.
SIGNER TO SIGNER
A fine frank on a boldly written cover sheet, which carried a letter between two influential New Hampshire delegates, both of whom signed the Declaration of Independence. Bartlett left Congress after the 1778-1779 term, pleading fatigue and old age, but served as chief justice of the court of common pleas from 1779. Whipple wrote frequently to Bartlett. Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, ed. E.C. Burnett, prints over a dozen letters of Whipple to Bartlett in the eventful year 1779.