four-partially-printed-18th-century-documents
Lot 525
Four Partially Printed 18th Century Documents
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
As follows: An apprentice's indenture, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1779, binding William Smith to farmer Amos Slaymaker for sixteen years, one page, large quarto (overall browning; faded ink, good condition); Survey order, Westmorland County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1787, secretarial signature "B. Franklin" as governor, one page, oblong quarto, wherein the Commonwealth will sell to Martha Dougherty one hundred acres "PROVIDED the Land is not within the last Purchase made by the Indians." (Loss to edges; splits along folds; good condition); Virginia Militia Commission signed by Lt. Governor James Wood, naming Alexander Walker a Captain, Richmond, April 2, 1794, one page with verso docketing, large quarto (Some losses along folds; overall good condition); Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800), Document Signed "Tho Miffilin as Governor of Pennsylvania, one page with verso docketing, oblong folio, Philadelphia, October 22, 1794, conveying the estate "Litchfield" to kinsman and fellow U.S. Constitution signatory Robert Morris (vellum; very fine condition).

The Collection of Arthur Bennett Schram, Jr. of Pinehurst, North Carolina and Jupiter Island, Florida

$300 - 500