. Retrographs: comprising a history of New York city prior to the revolution; biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Nathan Hale; sketches of John André and Beverly Robinson; schemes of Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold ... Embodying more than a hundred letters and signatures of famous persons, many of which have not previously been published: including a fac-simile of an original official map of the city of New York, made in 1728, representing all the streets, blocks, wards, keys and docks then existing. form copies first went forth to the world. Subsequently it was signed by the
. Retrographs: comprising a history of New York city prior to the revolution; biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Nathan Hale; sketches of John André and Beverly Robinson; schemes of Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold ... Embodying more than a hundred letters and signatures of famous persons, many of which have not previously been published: including a fac-simile of an original official map of the city of New York, made in 1728, representing all the streets, blocks, wards, keys and docks then existing. form copies first went forth to the world. Subsequently it was signed by theother members — fifty-six in all. The foregoing is a fac-simile of that part of theoriginal document which contains the signatures. 176 A U T O G R^A P H S It was more than eleven years after the promulgation of the Declaration of Inde-pendence that the first real, practical, form of Government was conceived, viz. : theFederal Constitution — fac-similes of the signatures to which appear upon these twopages. Justice INIiller, of the U. S. Supreme Court, to whom reference has been made,further says : In looking at the names of those who signed the instrument, our senti-ment of pious reverence for the work of their hands hardly permits us to discriminate byspecial mention of any. But it is surely not in bad taste to mention that the name ofGeorge Washington is there as its first signer and President of the Convention. Thenfollows his deserved tribute to the services of Hamilton, which is quoted upon page
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