Photograph of a document appointing Jacob Weaver, Esq. as captain of an independent company to be raised in Pennsylvania, January 1777 in the Continental Army. Signed by Charles Montgomery and John Hancock.
Edward Shippen home. Note on bottom of picture: "Lancaster residence -1752- of Edward Shippen - Mayor of Philadelphia 1744; buried in St. James Church-yard, Lancaster, Pa., 1781--His grand-daughter, Mary Shippen Burd, married Peter Grubb II, Ironmaster,Cornwall, Pa., Grand-father of Clement B. Grubb."