Lot 633
[American Revolution] Archive of Colonial Manuscripts: Slavery Document, Land Deeds and Indentures. Most of the documents show expected wear and tear, with occasional leaf separation, and overall age-toning. Condition ranges from Very Good to Fine. Lot of Sixteen Colonial Manuscript Documents Signed. Intriguing lot of Colonial and Early American Manuscript Documents from the early 1700s to 1850s. The lot includes: a Manuscript Slave Document Signed by Stephen H. Lane, One page, legal Folio, New Castle County, Westchester, New York, January 5, 1824, being a legal contract for the sale of "a certain negro girl named Lette"; a Manuscript Document Signed by the same Stephen Lane, One page, legal Folio, [New York], August 22, 1848, concerning the financial arrangements around the sale of a farm; a fascinating early colonial Manuscript Legal Deposition Signed by Colonial Mayor Joseph Jansen, One page, legal Folio, New York, September 13, 1726, narrating a disagreement between a shopkeeper and a purchaser of his goods; a Partially Printed Colonial Legal Document, One page, legal Folio, Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Bristol, New England, October 12, 1726, being a "Recognizance" of indebtedness from Nathaniel Holloway and others who appears before the Court, which orders them to appeal or suffer the levying of their "…Goods or Chattels, Lands or Tenements, and in want thereof upon their bodies."; a Manuscript Legal Document, One page, legal folio, Georgia, April 11, 1788, recording an indebtedness; Manuscript Ships Manifestfrom the Schooner Fancy , One page, legal Folio, St. Christopher, September 5, 1808, recording the return of unladen merchandise which includes "…Eighty Puncheons of Rum, Thirty four Hogsheads of Molasses," and barrels of sugar, limes, tamarinds, oranges, lead, copper, and rum; Seven Manuscript Land Deeds and Indentures, most One page, legal Folios, relating to land in the State of New York, with dates ranging 1726 to 1826, many illustrated with hand-renderings of the tracts of land referenced in the documents; and three other Manuscript Documents, two being incomplete fragments, relating to financial matters in the early colonies.
Estimated Value $200-UP.
From the Gerald Burg collection.
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