Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Deed transferring a fractional share of the late president's estate to his widowed sister-in-law. Manuscript deed, 13 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, with secretarial signatures, with recorder's note dated on 13 February 1805 on second page, and "A true copy, teste S.J. Cramer" below, with address panel on second page from unknown sender bearing inked postmark from Charles Town, VA and manuscript "25", addressed to Erasmus Stribling (1784-1858) of Staunton, VA. Berkeley County, VA, 1 December 1801 (deed date), copied soon after 1805
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This deed, originally dated 1 December 1801, transfers a share of George Washington's estate between his heirs. It states that "whereas General George Washington late of Mount Vernon dec'd in and by his last will and testament among other things did devise . . . the monies arising therefrom to be divided in twenty three equal parts," with one of the parts bequeathed to his niece Mildred Washington Hammond of Berkeley County, VA (daughter of his brother Charles Washington) and her husband Thomas. By this deed, the Hammonds transferred their share of the estate to her mother Mildred Thornton Washington (1737-1804), the late president's widowed sister-in-law. Shortly after Mildred Washington's death, the deed was recorded in Charles Town, Jefferson County (now West Virginia, the town which the late Charles Washington had founded). This copy of the recorded deed was made at some unknown early date, and mailed to Staunton, VA. A postal historian could likely guess at the date it was mailed by the postal markings.