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1798 Quazi War Partially-Printed Military Commission Signed “A. Fenner” as Governor of Rhode Island, Framed

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ARTHUR FENNER (1745-1805). Fourth Governor of Rhode Island serving from 1790 until his death in 1805. Fenner was a prominent Country Party (Anti-federalist) leader. About 1764, Fenner joined several others as a Petitioner for the Chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Brown University).

May 10, 1798-Dated Post Revolutionary/Quazi War with France Period, Partially-Printed Military Commission Document Signed, “A. Fenner” as Governor of the State of Rhode Island, Framed, Fine. This original Military Commission document for Lieutenant William Tanner, third Infantry of West Greenwich. Also Signed by “Sam(uel) Eddy” Secretary. Nicely matted and framed in an appropriate decorative wood frame, protected under special TRU VUE UV Plexiglas. Scattered tone and seal at upper left fully intact causing some tone transfer at right, three vertical folds with some splitting reinforced on the blank reverse. Not inspected out of its frame. Boldly Signed “A. Fenner” as Governor, his signature measuring about 3” long.

Provenance: Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II
Arthur Fenner (December 10, 1745 - October 15, 1805) was an American politician who served as the Fourth Governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in 1805. He has the seventh longest Gubernatorial tenure in Post-Constitutional U.S. History serving for 5,641 days.

Fenner was a prominent Country Party (Anti-Federalist) leader. Around 1764, Fenner joined several others as a petitioner for the Chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the original name for Brown University).

During the American Revolutionary War Fenner served as a Lieutenant in Hitchcock's Regiment in 1775 during the Siege of Boston. He then served as a Captain in Babcock's/Lippitt's Regiment of Rhode Island State Troops in 1776. For many years before becoming governor, Fenner served as the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
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