1775 – A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of “Felonious Trespass” signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state’s first Constitution of 1776.
Bedford County Pennsylvania: 1775. Unbound. This impressive warrant from Bedford County, Pennsylvania measures 13” x 4”. It is dated the “Thirteenth Day of July in the fifteenth Year of [the] Reign” of George III, i.e., 1775. In nice shape. It reads in part: “George the third by the..... More