Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
SIGNER (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) MORRIS, LEWIS. Document Signed, receipt for payment for having "attended the Council for the Temporary Government of the Southern District as a Member nineteen Days," written in the lower margin of a document certifying his service, signed by the Council Secretary James M. Hughes. 5x8 inches; backed, closed tear at right edge affecting text, edges reinforced, folds, bold signature. Np, 12 May 1784
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The Council for the Temporary Government of the Southern District assumed power in November of 1783, when the last British authorities withdrew from New York, and it operated until January of 1784, when the state legislature convened.