Michael Hillegas
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Michael Hillegas was an American merchant and politician who served as the first Treasurer of the United States from 1775 to 1789.
Check signed by Hillegas as Treasurer of the United States (1782)
1922 $10 gold certificate featuring Hillegas's portrait
In the American Revolution, committees of correspondence, committees of inspection, also known as committees of observation and committees of safety, were different local committees of Patriots that b
A July 4, 1776, notice sent by the Second Continental Congress to a Committee of Safety organized in Lancaster in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania
Faneuil Hall in Boston, where a Committee of Safety convened on November 21, 1772