Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
SIGNER (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) CARROLL, CHARLES. Document Signed, "Ch. Carroll of Carrolton," promissory note, agreeing to pay Matthew Lockard £114. 1 1/4 pages, small 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; extreme end of signature crowded by manuscript seal, horizontal folds. Np, 7 October 1789

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Carroll (1734-1832) outlived all the other signers of the Declaration. He was among the earliest patriots and a member of the Annapolis Committee of Correspondence in 1774, and then later in his life, a member of the first board of directors of the B & O Railroad.