Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Membership certificate of the Society of the Sons of St. George. Partly-printed document on vellum, 9 x 10 1/2 inches, issued to Thomas MacDonald and signed by officers Isaac Hazlehurst, George Davis, and Philip Nicklin, with paper and ribbon seal attached; moderate wear and soiling. Philadelphia, 24 May 1797

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This organization was established in 1772 at Philadelphia "for the advice and assistance of Englishmen in distress." They remain active today. We have not seen any other 18th-century certificates.