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Aaron Burr

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Aaron Burr

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Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : 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
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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 ballance 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.

Burr, Samuel Breese, and William Malcom were the executors of the estate of Samuel Bayard (1706-1784). In 1786, Bayard’s widow Catharine charged that the three executors of her deceased husband Samuel’s estate (Burr, her nephew Samuel Breese, and her niece’s husband William Malcom) were defrauding her by refusing to convey to her a house which her husband had purchased from her mother’s estate. She won the case. Her lawyer was Alexander Hamilton whom Burr killed in a duel 18 years later. Lawyer Samuel Sidney Breese (1768-1848), a New York State legislator and a delegate to the 1821 New York State Constitutional Convention, was the uncle of inventor Samuel Finlay Breese Morse.