Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
SIGNER SHERMAN, ROGER. Autograph Document Signed, ordering Connecticut Treasurer John Lawrence to pay £10 to Wetmore & Sherman "out of any mo[ney] appropriated for the support of civil government on account of what is due to me on the Debenture of the Sup[erio]r Court in the Fall circuit 1785." 3½x7½ inches; moderate brittling overall, loss to upper right corner affecting few letters of text, short closed separations at folds, small hole at lower left (without loss to text), moderate uneven toning, receipt signature and docketing truncated at upper edge verso. Np, circa 1785

Additional Details

In 1784, Sherman formed a company with Ilez Wetmore to sell dry and other goods from a building on Chapel Street in New Haven.