1788, Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, signed grant

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1788, Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, signed grant:
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This is a wonderful, original document dated 1788, Virginia, where Edmund Randolph has signed a land grant to Ephraim Blaine for 5000 acres along the Sioto River....signed at bottomin a huge signature, Edm. Randolph. Document is vellum, 15x18, folds, minor pinholes, else in overall good condition.

Edmund Jennings Randolph(August 10, 1753– September 12, 1813) was an Americanattorneyand politician. He was theseventh Governor of Virginia, the secondSecretary of State, and the firstUnited States Attorney General.

A scandal involving an intercepted French message led to Randolph\'s resignation as Secretary of State in August 1795. The British Navy had intercepted correspondence from the French minister, Joseph Fauchet, to the U.S. and turned it over to Washington. Washington was dismayed that the letters reflected contempt for the United States and that Randolph was primarily responsible. The letters implied that Randolph had exposed the inner debates in the cabinet to the French and told them that the Administration was hostile to France. At the very least, Elkins and McKitrick conclude, there \"was something here profoundly disreputable to the government\'s good faith and character.\"

Washington immediately overruled Randolph\'s negative advice regarding the Jay Treaty. A few days later Washington, in the presence of the entire cabinet, handed the minister\'s letter to Randolph and demanded he explain it. Randolph was speechless and immediately resigned. Chernow and Elkinsconclude that Randolph was not bribed by the French but \"was rather a pitiable figure, possessed of some talents and surprisingly little malice, but subject to self-absorbed silliness and lapses of good sense.\" However, Randolph\'s own publishedVindicationillustrates his concerns regarding both public and private perceptions of his character, concerns which held great value in the 18th century.

ColonelEphraim Blaine(1741–1804) was an earlyPennsylvaniasettler who served as commissary-general for the middle district of theContinental Armyunder GeneralGeorge Washington.

In 1776, with the outbreak of war, Blaine was named chief commissary officer of the newly formed8th Pennsylvania Regiment. Soon thereafter, Washington appointed Blaine commissary of purchases for the northern (or middle) department of the Continental Army.In that position, Blaine helped to feed the Army that wintered atValley Forgein 1777–1778.In 1777, Blaine was also made colonel of the Cumberland County militia.As commissary-general, Blaine traveled throughout the colonies to arrange food deliveries for the army, often having to advance his own money for payment.

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