Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Endorsement signed “A. Burr,” after a statement written in another hand which reads, “I have examined this a/c approve of the same & allow it. Aug. 15th 1823,” on the reverse of a 12 x 7.5 manuscript document, being a balance sheet headed “Aaron Burr Esqr. Surviving Execut[o]r and Trustee & of Saml Bayard dec[eased]d in acct. with S. Sidney Breese,” with several financial entries of monies coming in and going out. Written on the reverse in another hand is “I have this day examined and Settled the within amount with S. Sidney Breese and do hereby release & discharge him from the balance due from him on former settlement. (he having within accounted for the disposal of the same)–and from all demands whatever. Witness my hand and seal this [blank] day of [blank] 1823.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered toning, light show-through from writing on reverse, and a bit of light soiling.
This endorsement came in the wake of a protracted legal battle between Burr, Breese (a New York State legislator and a delegate to the 1821 New York State Constitutional Convention, he held another claim to fame as the uncle of inventor Samuel Finlay Breese Morse), and William Malcom, the executors of Samuel Bayard’s estate following his 1784 demise. In 1786 his widow, Catharine Bayard, charged that the three executors had defrauded her by refusing to give her a house her husband had purchased from her mother’s estate. Catharine Bayard won the case, but nearly 40 years later, the litigants in that case were still tending to Bayard’s affairs. Ironically, Mrs. Bayard’s attorney in the aforementioned lawsuit was Alexander Hamilton…who Burr would kill in an 1804 duel.
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