[ Autographs ] FRANCIS HOPKINSON (1737 - 1791) Signer of the Declaration of Independence, active in pre-Revolutionary agitation and played an important part in designing the American flag. Partly- printed war-date D.S. "Fr. Hopkinson", 1p. large 12mo., [Pennsylvania] Dec. 21, 1778, a United States-issued sight draft in the amount of eighteen dollars issued to one Joseph Kirkbride, signed by Hopkinson as Treasurer of Loans. Very slight show-through of endorsements on verso, otherwise very good.