An Extraordinarily Rare Autograph of Dr. Nathaniel Scudder, the Only We Have Ever Seen
The only member of the Continental Congress to die in battle during the Revolutionary War. We have never seen one before.
Nathaniel Scudder was a physician and patriot leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress, and was a strong supporter of the Articles of Confederation. He wrote a series of impassioned letters to New Jersey leaders urging the adoption of the Articles, and...
Nathaniel Scudder was a physician and patriot leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress, and was a strong supporter of the Articles of Confederation. He wrote a series of impassioned letters to New Jersey leaders urging the adoption of the Articles, and when New Jersey’s legislature approved them in November 1777, he signed them for the state at Congress. Scudder dropped his medical practice to serve in the milirary, and he led a regiment in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778.
On October 17, 1781, just two days before Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, Scudder led a part of his regiment to offer resistance to a British Army foraging party, and was killed in a skirmish near Shrewsbury. Dr. Scudder was the only member of the Continental Congress to die in battle during the Revolutionary War.
Autograph Document Signed, Freehold, N.J., January 24, 1777, being a military pay order on Col. Francis Gurney for transportation expenses. Col. Gurney commanded the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution and was a Philadelphia business and civic leader afterwards. “Please to pay the within bills of wagon fare to the bearer Mr. Jacob Wikoff & oblige your humble servant.”
Scudder’s autograph is an extraordinary rarity. We have never before seen one, and a search of records going back almost 40 years fails to turn up even one. This document came to us when we acquired Colonel Gurney’s papers, and it has never before been offered for sale.
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