From Robert Hunter Morris: Commission
Printed form with MS insertions in blanks; American Philosophical Society
[February 24, 1756]
By the Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esq;

Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware.

  To  Benjamin Franklin Esqr.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Philadelphia, the  

  Richard Peters Secretary

Robt: H: Morris

Endorsed: be it remembered that on the Twenty Eighth Day of February 1756 the within named Benjamin Franklin took the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration made and subscribed the usual Declaration of Fidelity &c. as prescribed by Law, and also took an Oath faithfully to execute and discharge the Trust in him reposed by the within Commission.

Before Richard Peters

duly authorized for that purpose by Dedimus Potestatem under the Great Seal of the Province.
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