Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
PARDONING BECAUSE HE CANNOT PAY MADISON, JAMES. Document Signed, as President, pardoning William Stevens for "assisting to land a parcel of foreign goods, the Duties of which had not been paid" because he "was not fully apprised of the illegality of his agency in the said Transaction, and that he is utterly unable to pay." Additionally signed by Secretary of State James Monroe. 1 page, folio, integral blank (detached); complete separations at horizontal and vertical folds (document in 4 parts), moderate brittling and toning to all edges, some chipping to all edges, moderate scattered staining. sold as is. Washington, 14 June 1816

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with--Contemporary manuscript transcription of this and related documents attached to a document signed by a district judge certifying that William Stevens is unable to pay the penalties that are due to the U.S. 4 pages, small 4to, written on two sheets stitched together along one side. Barnstable, MA, 2 July 1816.