HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts). Partly printed document signed ("John Hancock") as President of Congress, Baltimore, 1 January 1777. 1 page, oblong folio, 328 x 210mm. (13 x 8 1/4 in.), clean separation at central fold (repairable), fold tears, light dampstains, silked on verso. "The Delegates of the United States...[appoint] Israel Shreeve...to be Colonel of the Second Battalion of Troops raising in the State of New Jersey, to be employed in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty..."