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THBGen. Arthur St. Clair, DS as Governor of the Northwest Territory, 1801
Lot 8
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7.5 x 13 in. (sight), framed with a small lithograph of St. Clair to 13.5 x 26.5 in. This appears to be a security held while Samuel Robb of Hamilton County and William Lytle (II) of Clermont County, Ohio are in office. Robb was to be appointed Recorder of Clermont County, and "...to the Governor [of the territory north west of the Ohio]...the sum of fifteen hundred Dollars, to the payment of which will and truly to be made we do bind ourselves, [and] ...if he, the said Samuel Robb, shall well and truly execute the said office according to law, and shall deliver up to his Successor in office all the Books and Papers belonging to the said Office whole and undefaced, the the same to be void and of no effect, otherwise - to be and remain in full force and virtue."
Arthur St. Clair (1737-1818). Revolutionary War major general and 1st Governor of the Northwest Territory. DS, 1p, 7.75 x 13 in., dated at Williamsburgh, Clermont County, Northwest Territory (now Ohio), for $1,500 bound between Samuel Robb of Hamilton County and William Lytle of Clermont County. Framed to 13.5 x 26.5 in.
Arthur St. Clair was born March 23, 1736 in Thurso, Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1757, he purchased a commission in the British Army, Royal American Regiment and came to America serving primarily under General Jeffrey Amherst during the French and Indian War. In 1762, he resigned his commission, achieving the rank of Lieutenant, and settled in the Ligonier Valley of Pennsylvania erecting mills and becoming the largest landowner in western Pennsylvania.
During the 1770s he served in several roles, his most important being prothonotary of Bedford and Westmoreland counties where he arrested John Connolly who was taking claim of the area around Pittsburgh for Virginia and raising a militia to fight the Ohio Indians during Lord Dunmore’s War of 1774.
During the American Revolution, he became a Colonel of the 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment and was later appointed Brigadier General by George Washington. In 1777, he was sent to defend Fort Ticonderoga where he ended up retreating and giving the fort to General John Burgoyne. St. Clair was court-martialed but exonerated and resumed his duties but not in any combative action.
St. Clair was elected a delegate of the Continental Congress from 1785-1787 where he served as the ninth President of the Continental Congress during his last year. He was appointed Governor of the newly-created Northwest Territory in the same year and moved to Fort Washington (modern day Cincinnati). Following Harmar’s defeat to the Indians in 1791, St. Clair became the senior General of the armies and led an ill-fated expedition against the Indians which resulted in the worst defeat by Indians in American History.
Eleven years later, St. Clair was embroiled in a battle with the citizens of Ohio who were petitioning for statehood in the United States. St Clair’s opposition resulted in his termination as Governor of the Northwest Territory, and he returned to Greensburg, Pennsylvania where he died in poverty on August 31, 1818. - Shipping Info
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