COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG IMPRINT: VIRGINIA COMMITTEE OF SAFETY APPOINTMENT, 1776.


Partially Printed Document Signed ("Edmd Pendleton," "John Page," "Thos Lud: Lee," "P. Carrington," "W: Cabell" and "Js. Mercer"), an appointment to Captain of the Frederick County militia, 1 p, 4to, Williamsburg, January 8th, 1776, soiling, with tears at the ends of folds.A COMMITTEE OF SAFETY APPOINTMENT FOR ROBERT WHITE, who fought in Boston from 1775-1776, where he, according to one account, "soon arrested the attention of the commander-in-chief by his chivalric bearing" (Southern Literary Messenger Vol 4, 1838, p 431). White was injured in 1779, carrying the wound the rest of his life, and was inducted as an original member of the Society of Cincinnati. Later, he would make his mark as a distinguished judge, serving in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Court of Appeals.