Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SIGNER STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN FINANCES WHILE SPECULATING IN LAND MORRIS, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Rob't Morris," to Thomas Fitzsimmons, declaring full responsibility for payment of Morris's bills of exchange endorsed by Fitzsimmons, and expecting the payments to be covered by his own share of the proceeds from the sale of land held in common with him by London firm Arthur Cramond & Co. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; horizontal folds. Philadelphia, 4 December 1794
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"In consequence of the Power which You and I have transmitted to Mr. Arthur Cramond for the Sale of our Georgia Lands, I have made a Sale of Bills drawn by me upon . . . Arthur Cramond in fav'r of JnoNicholson or order payable in one year, Eighteen months, Two Years & Three Years to the Amount of Fourteen Thousand pounds Sterl'g in the whole, all which bills You have been kind enough to endorse.
"I do therefore hereby bond myself to exonerate you from any share of the payment of said bills, as the same are to be paid out of Two thirds the proceeds of the said Lands or from other of my own Funds."