JAY JOHN Autograph Letter Signed as Governor

Sale 2021 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 1,150

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JAY, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, as Governor, to an unnamed recipient, requesting that pardons be prepared for Peter Post and John van Blaricum, who had been convicted of forgery and sentenced to life in prison. 1 page, 4x71/2 inches; inlaid. New York, 28 July 1797

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"Be pleased to prepare Pardons for Peter Post, and John van Blaricum, who at a court of Oyer and Terminer held in & for this City & County in March last, were convicted of forgery; & sentenced to imprisonment for Life in the State Prison, at hard labour & in solitude and untill such State Prison be built and ready for the Reception of Prisoners that they be confined in the gaol of the City & County of N York."