William Henry Harrison Autograph Document Signed

ADS signed "Wm. H. Harrison, A.D.C.," one page, 7.75 x 2.5, August 6, 1795. Handwritten commissary order issued from his headquarters at Greenville, Ohio, in full: "For the Shawanoes two hundred & fifty pounds of beef & flour—Commissary." In fine condition, with a stain touching the signature. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.

At this time, Harrison was just 22 years old and serving as aide-de-camp to General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne in the Ohio Indian Wars. Just three days before writing this document, he had been one of the signatories of the Treaty of Greenville, which ended the Northwest Indian War. In the treaty a coalition of Native American tribes, including the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Miami, and Shawnee (or Shawanoese), ceded a large area of midwestern land to the United States in exchange for goods valued at $20,000. Harrison would come to national fame nearly two decades later when he again fought the Native Americans, most prominently in a victorious effort over Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.