Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 59r
Notes:
Engraving by Augustin Saint-Aubin (1736-1807), after Charles Nicolas Cochin II (1715–1790), George Washington
The donor, John Shee (1740–1808), was a Philadelphia merchant who served on the city's committee of correspondence 1774–75, was appointed colonel of the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment by the Continental Congress on 3 Jan 1776. The demands of his family induced him to resign his command on 25 Sept. 1776. Shee was a member of the Pennsylvania board of war during 1777, state auditor of public accounts from 1780 to 1781, and a lieutenant colonel in the militia from 1780 to 1786. Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0382
