Auction Date:2012 Nov 14 @ 18:00 (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
Manuscript DS, signed “Robert Treat Paine,” one page, 7.5 x 12, June 12, 1740. Document reads, in part: “Know all men by these pls. That we Samuel Hill of Biddeford in ye county of New York & Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England Gent. And Humphrey Scammon of Sd. Town & county gent, are holden and justly indebted to Thomas Paine of Boston in ye County of Suffolk merchant in the full & just sum of two thousand pounds in good bills of credit of ye Province above sd. Or current lawfull silver money to be pay'd to him & sd Paine his heirs execrs adms or assign to the which payment well & truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs and administers joyfully & severally firmly by these . . . sealed with our seals on the eleventh day of June 1740. The condition of this bond is that if the sd Samuel Hill & Humphrey Scammon shall pay to ye sd Thomas Paine one thousand & twelve pounds three shillings & two pence in like good bills of credit or silver money or in a good wood or lumber delivered to Paine at Boston at money Pine at or before the eleventh day of June next which will be A.S. 141 with lawfull interest for the same bond shall be void otherwise it shall remain in full force.” Signed at the conclusion by Paine, and also signed by Samuel Hill, Thos. Allen, and Humphrey Scammon. Reverse bears an endorsement signed by Thomas Paine. In good to very good condition, with professional repairs and reinforcement on reverse of horizontal fold separations, paper loss to edges, intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, show-through from docketing and endorsement on reverse, and scattered toning and soiling. Thomas Paine served as a pastor in a Weymouth church before becoming a mercantile businessman in Boston. This document undoubtedly concerns his business interests.
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