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SARASOTA, FLORIDA

USCA Journals 1781 printing open to the  July 9 & 10th, 1781 entries recording the elections of Samuel Johnston and Thomas McKean as Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled four months before John Hanson's Presidency. -  McKean came into the presidency at the beginning of the Revolutionary War’s end. His first dispatch as President was military in nature issuing permission, on July 11 President Thomas McKean signs Joseph de L’ Etombe Consul General of France U.S. Commission Since 1779, Chief Justice Thomas McKean resided on Philadelphia’s High street, now known as Market Street, near Second Street. On December 20, 1780, the Supreme Executive Council directed that the honorable Chief Justice be allowed to occupy Mr. Duche's house until July 1, 1781. The Reverend Duche had been chaplain to the First Continental Congress. Being of a “vacillating character,” after siding with the colonists, Duche joined the Tories. He was found guilty of high treason and his real estate consisting of the mansion, coach house, stables and four lots was confiscated. On August 10, 1781 the Executive Council sold the house to Thomas McKean for £7750, Pennsylvania currency, subject to a ground rent of 232| bushels of wheat. The house, being an initial “perk” provided for the Chief Justice by the Pennsylvania Executive Council, fueled the citizen criticism of the McKean.  Particularly, a Mr. Tenax's public attacks on the In the reply of Tenax to Jurisperitus in your last paper I find he is a little sore; this proves he is not altogether callous, tho' I should have been more pleased if he had pointed out that part of the Constitution, of Pennsylvania which provides, 'that no man shall hold more than one place of power,' as he was particularly called upon for it. I would ask, which is most blamable, with respect to decorum, he who violates the truth, or he who proves the charge.