TIMOTHY MATLACK DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SCRIBE PENNSYLVANIA DOCUMENT 1804

Description

Type:
Document – exemplification
Autograph:
T. Matlack
[Timothy Matlack [(1736-1829) Scribe, Soldier & Politician)
Title:
Patent to James Claypoole
Location:
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Date:
10 July 1804 (exemplification)
Size:
9 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches
Paper Watermark:
Budgen 1799
with armorial crest
Content:
1804 exemplification of a 14 September 1685 patent for land. Some of the names of people and places found - Thomas Lloyd, James Claypoole, Robert Turner, William Penn, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Germantown, Charles Hartford, and Springetsbury. The exemplification is signed by Timothy Matlack who was the master of rolls in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Also included is a small manuscript list of land patents from later in the 19th century.
History:
Timothy Matlack (b. 28 March 1736 in Haddonfield, Province of New Jersey – d. 14 April 1829 in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania) was the scribe of the official Declaration of Independence (1776) produced on vellum and George Washington's commission as General and Commander-in-Chief of the army of the United Colonies, delegate to the Second Continental Congress (1780), and was Secretary to the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
Matlack also helped draft the Pennsylvania Constitution (1776), was Colonel of the Fifth Battalion of Rifle Rangers during Washington’s Trenton-Princeton campaign (Dec. 1776- Jan. 1777); and was one of the lead investigators of
Benedict Arnold for corruption during his time as Commandant of Philadelphia. After the War, Matlack was named a trustee of the University of the State of Pennsylvania in 1779, one of the founders of The Religious Society of Free Quakers (1781), and later moved to Lancaster (1799-1808) where he served as Clerk of the Pennsylvania Senate.
He was the son of Timothy Matlack Sr. (1695-1752) and Martha Burr (1704-1765). Matlack was the husband of Eleanor Yarnell (1736-1791, m. 1758) and Elizabeth Claypoole (1751-?).
Condition:
Closed tears at fold junctions (largest 1/2 inch), light soiling, folds/creases, etc. See pictures.
Provenance:
Firth & Livezey Family of Philadelphia, Pa. & Beauvoir Farm, Trappe Creek, Md.
Note:
Document will be mailed in its folded form.
Item Number:
A07