May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SIGNER (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) FLOYD, WILLIAM. Document Signed, "Wm: Floyd" twice, an account of his services to NY State as Senator and delegate to the Second Continental Congress, including, on verso, his 1781 certification of the account and his 1782 acknowledgement of receipt of payment, each followed by his signature and paraph. 2 pages, folio, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; nearly complete separations at horizontal folds, minor dampstaining along left edge verso (not affecting signatures). (TFC) Poughkeepsie, 2 July 1781; Np, 2 November 1782

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"The State of New York / To Wm Floyd Dr / To my pay as a Delegate from the 14th Decem'r 1778 / To the 19 June 1779 is 188 days 34/ £319.12 . . . . Cr. . . .
1779 March 2 By Cash Rec'd out of the Continental Treasury / 2000 Dolls. Exch. at 12 for 1 is 66.14.4 . . . .
"I do hereby Certify that the within is a Just & True acct of my Services in Congress & . . . all the Moneys drew from this State & out of the Continental Treasury on acct of my Services. . . .
"Rec'd . . . four hundred & forty three pounds eight Shillings in Specie in full for the within Account . . . ."