NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
0.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Mar 29 @ 13:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: (1809 - 1865) Sixteenth President of the United States who led the Union through the Civil War and emancipated the slaves, assassinated. Fine A.D. (unsigned), 1p. legal folio, Paris, Ill., Oct. 28, 1850, a summons which reads most part: "The People of the State of Illinois To the Sheriff of Edgar County Greeting - We command you to summon Seth Austin, administrator of Elijah Austin deceased to appear before our Edgar County Circuit Court on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in Paris in said County, to defend a certain action of Debt which the People of the State of Illinois heretofore instructed in said Circuit Court against said Elijah Austin, since deceased, for the use of Nancy Burr, since intermarried with James Clark, George Bartlett and Luthea his wife, Daniel Burr, and Collins P. Jaqwith and Sarah his wife; and in which action, said Circuit Court rendered a judgment, and which judgement the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois has reversed and has remanded the case to said Circuit Court for further proceedings; And have you then there this writ...". Light soiling, clean tear repaired on verso, otherwise very good condition. $3,500-4,500
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