Handwritten copy of a 1781 commission for Colonel Isaac Franks as Ensign in the 7th Regiment of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed by John Hancock. Created in 1876, this double-sided document (7 1/2 x 12 inches) also includes a history of the house Franks inhabited in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where President Washington stayed during the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic. In 1876, the commission was owned by George Huffnagle of New Hope, Pennsylvania, Isaac Franks' grandson. The house is still extant and known as the Deshler-Morris House.
Subject: Germantown, Pennsylvania
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