[ Autographs ] Edward Rutledge 1749-1800 Signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, and a Governor of South Carolina. A.D.S. 1p. folio, [n.p.], Sep. 1, 1795 As a memberof the South Carolina legislature Rutledge completes a lengthy legal document requesting the court's intervention in the matter of an estate. Signed at conclusion, and again on verso. Light toning along one horizontal fold, mounting strips on verso, otherwise quite clean and attractive.