Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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
Partial self-contained ADS, signed in the text, “George Washington,” one page, 9 x 3.25, no date. Document reads, in full: “James Keith. At a Court contd & held for Fairfax Cty 19th day of December 1797 This Deed of Trust from James Welch to George Washington was proved by the Oaths of John Gadsby James Keith and Samuel Craig to be the act & Deed of the Parties which are ordered to be certified to the General Court. Teste P. Wagener CC.” Document has been cleanly and professionally silked. In fine condition, with silking as noted, and some minor mirroring of ink from missing text.
On December 10, 1797, Washington wrote Keith concerning four tracts of land along the Great Kanhawa River in what is now West Virginia that the former president planned to lease to Welch, with the document offered here referencing the court certification of a 1797 Deed of Trust for a 30-year lease on land. Despite the arrangement, Welch never paid Washington anything, and later wrote that he was in debt. Most of Washington’s lands were never leased or sold. In his will, Washington listed 23,341 acres on the Great Kanhawa River which he described in his will: ‘there is no richer, or more valuable land in all that Region.’ In all, at his death, Washington owned 9,744 acres on the Ohio River and another 27,000 acres of land in Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, and the Northwest Territory.
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