Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 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
Handwritten endorsement signed “Caesar Rodney, Recordr,” dated March 26, 1770, on a manuscript document, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 12.5, a land deed granting a tract of land in Kent County belonging to Andrew Hamilton and wife Mary to Samuel Chew for £800. The land transaction to which this deed refers was initiated in 1742, after the elder Andrew Hamilton's death, included land that was adjacent to or perhaps included in Hamilton's famous plantation "Whitehall." The document notes that a later assignment of this very land included "…stock of Negroes and cattell corn grain hay and all other the goods chattels and things whatsoever of him the said Andrew Hamilton party hereto which are now upon or belonging to the said Whitehall plantation lands…" Rodney’s endorsement reads, in part, “I do hereby certify that the above and foregoing instrument of writing is to be a true Copy of a Deed from Andw Hamilton and Mary his wife to Samuel Chew,” and signed at the conclusion by Rodney. In good condition, with scattered moderate toning and soiling, mounting remnants along both sides of hinge, some affecting final portion of Rodney’s title, reinforcement and repairs to partial fold separations and paper loss, chips to edges, and scattered dampstaining. The paper seal is worn, but intact. The elder Hamilton built his plantation on his excellent career in defense of John Peter Zenger, newspaper publisher. This 1735 decision established that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. Hamilton persuaded that the press has "a liberty of both exposing and opposing tyrannical power by speaking and writing truth." His expertise gave rise to the term ‘Philadelphia Lawyer’ denoting an attorney that was particularly adept and clever.
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