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Abraham Lincoln Unsigned Autograph Document

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD
Abraham Lincoln Unsigned Autograph Document
<B>Abraham Lincoln Unsigned Autograph Document.</B></I> No place or date (Tazewell Co., Ill.; docketed May 185[4?]), one page, folio, on gray-blue paper. A decree in Reuben Hatch vs John Preston and John Wightman, prepared for and signed by the judge, "<I>D. Davis</B></I>" (David Davis, a close personal friend and long-time legal associate of Lincoln, who helped secure his presidential nomination in 1860, was appointed by him to the U.S. Supreme Court, and administered his estate). Davis declares a conveyance by Preston to Wightman "<I>set aside and held for naught, as being fraudulent</B></I>" and orders that certain "<I>lands, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be sold to satisfy and paythe complainantinPike County Circuit Court</B></I>", and "<I>that the sheriff of Tazewell proceed upon the levy already made according to the rules of the common law</B></I>" Scattered light age toning. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>
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