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GEORGIA FIRST CONTINENTAL of 1776 ISSUED with CROWN SIGNED by 3 AMERICAN GREATS
GEORGIA FIRST CONTINENTAL of 1776 ISSUED with CROWN SIGNED by 3 AMERICAN GREATS
GEORGIA FIRST CONTINENTAL of 1776 ISSUED with CROWN SIGNED by 3 AMERICAN GREATS

GEORGIA FIRST CONTINENTAL of 1776 ISSUED with CROWN SIGNED by 3 AMERICAN GREATS

$ 472.56

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Denomination: 5 SHILLINGS
  • Grade: Ungraded
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Restocking Fee: 20%
  • Condition: As SHOWN in used condition with choppy borders, as shown, several pinholes and a small edge spit also a tape repair on the back etc. Examine all pictures carefully
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Certification: Uncertified
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Georgia
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

    Description

    The FIRST CONTINENTAL ISSUE of 1776 ISSUED with the UN PATRIOTIC CROWN (QUICKLY REPLACED with a BLUE CIRCLE MOTIF) and the LAST to be DENOMINATED in PENCE, SHILLINGS & POUNDS. SIGNED by 3 AMERICAN HEROES;
    William McGillivray, William Gibbons & William O'Bryen.
    William Gibbons (April 8, 1726 – September 27, 1800) was an American lawyer and revolutionary, member of the colonial assembly 1760–1762; joined the Sons of Liberty in 1774, and on May 11, 1775, was one of the party that broke open the magazine in Savannah and removed 600 pounds of the King's powder. Delegate to the Provincial Congress of July 1775,  member of the committee of safety and member of the executive council 1777–1781. Also associate justice of Chatham County in 1781 and 1782. Member of the Continental Congress in 1784, member of the State house of representatives in 1783, 1785–1789, and 1791–1793, and served as speaker in 1783, 1786, and 1787. President of the State constitutional convention in 1789 and justice of the inferior court of Chatham County 1790–1792, as if this was not enough!.
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    McGillivray was born in Dunmaglass, Inverness, Scotland. It is thought that he was fleeing the Highland rebellion of 1745 as he arrived penniless  in America, although he may have arrived as an indentured servant. Lachlan McGillivray was a Scottish Highlander recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler and soldier protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin, and the Indian allies of the Spanish and the French. On January 10, 1736, Lachlan and 176 emigrants, including women and children, arrived on board the Prince of Wales to establish the town of Darien, Georgia (originally known as New Inverness).  By the late 1740's, McGillivray was well established as a fur trader in the Upper Creek nation in what is now central Alabama.
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    William O'Bryen - Treasurer of Georgia (1778) and elected to the Continental Congress (1789).
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