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Document 260257

CONTINENTAL CURRENCY: NEW JERSEY
Signed in 1776 by Declaration of Independence Signer John Hart.
Currency signed in ink: "Robt Smith", "John Hart" and "J. Stevens Jun", 3¾x2¼. Continental currency were bills of credit issued by the Continental Congress and the states to assist in financing the Revolution. Numbered in ink at upper right: "57075". Printed on the face of the bill: "Eighteen Pence. This Bill of One Shilling and Six Pence Proclamation, is emitted by a Law of the Colony of New-Jersey, passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third. Dated March 25, 1776. Eighteen Pence." On verso is a print of a sage leaf and text: "Eighteen Pence. To Counterfeit is Death. Burlington in New-Jersey, Printed by Isaac Collins, 1776". In 1776, JOHN HART was designated one of the officials to sign the new currency notes issued as money for the colony of New Jersey. That same year he was elected as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. Shortly after signing the Declaration, he was elected to the new State Assembly and chosen its Speaker. When he left Philadelphia to take his seat in the state legislature at Princeton, his farm, livestock, gristmills and property were destroyed by Hessian mercenaries. Upon hearing the British were seeking to capture him, Hart eluded them by hiding in forests and sleeping in caves. His wife died during this time and his children were forced to hide and seek refuge with family and friends. Hart was 68 when he died in 1779. Fine condition.

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