Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 6,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, "BFranklin," as President of the Supreme Executive Council, granting 200 acres of land in Westmoreland county to John Hoover for services rendered in the army of the United States. Countersigned by Deputy Secretary James Trimble [for Secretary John Armstrong, Jr.]. 12x15 inches; some staining at folds, horizontal fold through paraph of signature (without loss), encapsulated (but removable), docketing and additional seal verso, paper seal mostly intact. [Philadelphia], 28 February 1787