Item 5: A Photographic Negative Image, by [Pos. Gilbert Stuart McClintock, [ca. mid-late nineteenth-early twentieth century], of a Certificate from Thomas Mifflin to Matthias Hollenback, , 1793 August 17
Item — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Legal Box #3, Folder: 5
Dates
- Created: 1793 August 17
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photographic Negative
General Condition:
Excellent
Measurements:
2 X 2 in.
Description:
The following is a photographic negative image, likely by Gilbert Stuart McClintock, from the mid-late nineteenth to early twentieth century. The original item, 12.68. Item 28, (removed to black box #1), is found in Subseries I: General, 1758-1841 of Series V: Wilkes-Barre, Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County, 1758-1841. The original item was a certificate, by Thomas Mifflin, who during the 1790s, presided over the committee writing Pennsylvania’s state constitution. He became Pennsylvania’s first governor in 1790 and left the role in 1799, the year prior to his death. Alexander Dallas was named Secretary of the Commonwealth by Mifflin. He held the post from 1791 to 1801.Civil honors came to Matthias Hollenback (1752-1829). His first commission in civil life was as justice of the Peace, signed by Benjamin Franklin, May 11, 1787, and under the state constitution, he was commissioned by Gov. Mifflin as Associate judge, August 17, 1791; a position which he filled with honor and esteem for 38 years. The military title of "Colonel" came from his rank in the peace-time Militia. Thus, this is a “certificate showing that Matthias Hollenback of Luzerne County was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd Regiment of the Luzerne brigade of the militia of Pennsylvania, August 17, 1793.”
Location:
Luzerne County, PA
Transcription Attempt:
In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin, Governor of the said Commonwealth To Mathhias Hollenback of the county of luzerne ~ Greeting: Know that you, the said Matthias Hollenback are hereby commissioned (being duly elected and returned) Lieutenant colonel of the Third Brigade of the militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To have and to hold this commission, exercising all the powers, and discharging all the duties thereto lawfully belonging and attached, for the term of seven years.
In Testimony whereof, I have set my hand and caused the great seal of the said state to be affixed to these Present, at the Philadelphia the Seventeenth Day of August- in the years of our lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three and of the Commonwealth the Eighteenth,
By the Governor,
A J. Dallas
Annotation: Tho Mifflin
Annotation: Tho Mifflin
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
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