WASHINGTON, George. Partly printed document signed (“G:o Washington”), as Commander-in-Chief, 9 June 1783. 2 pages, folio, in worn condition, as are most discharge certificates (paper losses folds and at top and bottom edges costing some text). Matted and framed.

WASHINGTON, George. Partly printed document signed (“G:o Washington”), as Commander-in-Chief, 9 June 1783. 2 pages, folio, in worn condition, as are most discharge certificates (paper losses folds and at top and bottom edges costing some text). Matted and framed.

A discharge certificate for Edmund E. Hill, a matross in the 2d New York Artillery regiment. Hill was a long-serving veteran of the War for Independence, having enlisted on 1 January 1777, and serving honorably “until the present period.”