Item #34689 STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. TO THE SELECTMEN OF [blank] GREETING. THE HON. JEREMIAH SMITH HAVING RESIGNED HIS OFFICE AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS STATE IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND PRECEPTS HAVING BEEN HERETOFORE ISSUED FOR CHOOSING A PERSON TO SUPPLY THE VACANCY THEREBY OCCASIONED, ON EXAMINING THE VOTES RETURNED, IT APPEARS THERE IS NOT ANY PERSON CHOSEN ... GIVEN AT THE COUNCIL-CHAMBER IN EXETER, THIS 23D DAY OF SEPTEMBER, [1797]. Jeremiah Smith.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. TO THE SELECTMEN OF [blank] GREETING. THE HON. JEREMIAH SMITH HAVING RESIGNED HIS OFFICE AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS STATE IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND PRECEPTS HAVING BEEN HERETOFORE ISSUED FOR CHOOSING A PERSON TO SUPPLY THE VACANCY THEREBY OCCASIONED, ON EXAMINING THE VOTES RETURNED, IT APPEARS THERE IS NOT ANY PERSON CHOSEN ... GIVEN AT THE COUNCIL-CHAMBER IN EXETER, THIS 23D DAY OF SEPTEMBER, [1797].

Exeter: Printed by Henry Ranley, [1797]. Broadside, 8" x 13". Signed in ink at the end, "Joseph Pearson", as Secretary. "Hampstead" is written in ink in the appropriate blanks. Old folds, several fox spots, wax seal remnant, light blank edge chip. Very Good.

Smith had been a New Hampshire revolutionary soldier; he served from 1775 until wounded at the Battle of Bennington. A Federalist Congressman beginning in 1791, he resigned in 1797 to become United States Attorney for New Hampshire. Later he would be New Hampshire's Governor and Chief Justice. He was co-counsel with Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason in the Dartmouth College Case.
In this rare broadside, evidently sent to all New Hampshire selectmen, Governor Gilman orders them to convene their electors to vote for Smith's replacement. The choices were Peleg Sprague and Woodbury Langdon. The broadside also sets forth the procedures governing the election.
Bristol B10014. ESTC W36118 [2- AAS, Clements]. Not in Evans, Shipton, or the Rauner Library. Item #34689

Price: $1,000.00

See all items by