Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SIGNER'S EARLY STOCK CERTIFICATE MORRIS, ROBERT. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Rob Morris," as President of the North American Land Company, stock certificate entitling Dr. Enoch Edwards to one share in the North American Land Company. Countersigned by company secretary James Marshall. 9 3/4x12 1/2 inches, scalloped left edge; ink burn to Morris signature with scattered loss, folds. Philadelphia, 18 April 1795

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The North American Land Company, founded 20 February 1795 at Philadelphia, was one of the larger American land speculation companies of the time, controlling at one point about 6,000,000 acres in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia, including present-day West Virginia. Despite reorganizations in 1802 and 1806, the company did not prosper and ultimately failed.