[SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. CHASE, SAMUEL (Maryland). Autograph letter signed to William Bowen, Baltimore, 16 August 1787, 2 pages, 4to integral address leaf (small repairs), instructing an attorney to "make two copies of the Writ of injunction, and to deliver one copy to Mr. William Buchanan, and another copy to the Sheriff...If you cannot find Mr. Buchanan, Service on the Sheriff alone, will stop all proceedings. You are to keep the original...because you are to make Oath, that you delivered copies thereof..." -- RODNEY, CAESAR (Delaware). Letter signed as Speaker of the Legislative Council of Delaware, 28 October 1783, 1 page, folio, integral blank, an official warrant summoning two men to appear before the Council to testify regarding "the conducting and carrying on of the last General Election held at Dover..."; together 2 items. (2)