Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SIGNER PASSES TO ANOTHER HIS DEBT TO FRIEND GEORGE WASHINGTON CLYMER, GEORGE. Autograph Endorsement Signed, "Merediths & Clymer," transferring the drawee of the bill of exchange on the verso to Archer, Byde, & Co. The bill, a partly-printed document signed by John H. Norton, requesting that an unspecified drawee [probably Clymer] pay £346 to George Washington, dated in Virginia, June 23, 1775. Additionally Signed, above Clymer's endorsement, by George Washington's cousin, Lund Washington ("For George Washington / Lund Washington"). 8x4 1/4 inches; folds with minor loss to text and signatures, John Mill's acceptance signature touching Lund Washington's signature. (MRS) Np, circa 1775