Second Congress of the United States, at the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one : an act for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids and other persons

Second Congress of the United States, at the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one : an act for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids and other persons

Act for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids and other persons.

[Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1792]

1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 41 cm.

BROAD 509B

(OCoLC)54177881

Francis Childs and John Swaine were printers to the Congress in 1792.
"Approved, March the twenty-seventh 1792."
"Deposited among the rolls in the office of the Secretary of State [signed in his hand] Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State."
The last clause reads: “That there be granted to Nicholas Ferdinand Westfall, who left the British service, and joined the Army of the United States during the late war, one hundred acres of unappropriated land in the Western Territory of the United States, free of all charges, and also the sum of three hundred and thirty-six dollars, out of any money appropriated to the contingent charges of Government” Westfall had died sometime between his original petition in Feb., 1791 and the Hamilton letter of 5 April, 1792, when his executrix appeals to Congress.-- see Papers of George Washington. Presidential Series, vol. 10, pp. 222-223.
Others mentioned in the document include Col. Owen Roberts, of South Carolina, who was killed during the battle of Stono Ferry, 1779..
From the collection of Harrison Tilghman (MD Society), descendant of Col. Tench Tilghman.
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