Nathaniel Folsom, Revolutionary War hero, signed document dated 1787


Nathaniel Folsom, Revolutionary War hero, signed document dated 1787

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Nathaniel Folsom, Revolutionary War Hero, signed document dated 1787


Nathaniel Folsom (1726-1790) was a delegate from New Hampshire and served in the French and Indian Wars as a captain in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment; successively major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the Fourth Regiment of New Hampshire Militia, which he commanded at the beginning of the Revolutionary War; brigadier general of the New Hampshire troops sent to Massachusetts and served during the siege of Boston; appointed major general and planned the details of troops sent from New Hampshire to Ticonderoga; Folsom was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1777-1780; executive councilor in 1778; a delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1783, serving as its president; chief justice of the court of common pleas.

This document, dated January 2, 1787 (the year the U.S. Constitution was born,) is an authentic legal document on hand-made rag-paper from New Hampshire. Measuring 8.25\" x 8\", It is a writ requesting the Sheriff to attach the goods of Richard Smith, of Exeter, to the value of Forty shillings. The written text in the document orders authorities \"to take the body of said Richard (if he may be found in your precinct) and him safely keep so that he may be had before me Nathaniel Folsom Esq. one of the Justices of the peace for the county aforesaid. . .) It bears the signature of Nathaniel Folsom at the bottom.

On the reverse is a served note from the deputy stating that he had \"taken the body of within named Richard Smith\" on January 6, 1787.

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