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Lot 68: Viscount Cornbury Signed Document

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Lot   68: Viscount Cornbury Signed Document
<b>Autographs</b><hr><b>VISCOUNT CORNBURY, Royal governor of New York and New Jersey.</b>
Document Signed, as Governor of New York, 2 pages, folio (8' by 11 1/2'), New York, August 22, 1705. Here the least able of EnglandÕs Royal governors certifies that the 'Inventory & Appraisement of the personal Estate of Benjamin Doughty late of Flushing in QueenÕs County Yeoman Deceased' has been sworn to be true. Viscount Cornbury was corrupt, extravagant, and with a penchant for appearing in public dressed in womenÕs clothing--he was most unpopular.