2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
HAMILTON, James (1710-1783), son of the well-known American lawyer Andrew Hamilton, was a prominent lawyer and governmental figure in colonial Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He served as Deputy Governor of the Province from 1748 to 1754, and again from 1759 to 1763 Partly-printed document signed "James Hamilton" while serving as lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, August 11, 1752. "Whereas David MaGaw of the County of Cumberland hat requested that we would grant him to take up fifty Acres of Land an addition to his other land adjoining John Potter along the Waggon road, County of Cumberland for which he agrees to pay to our use at the rate of fifteen pounds ten shillings current Money of the Province…Given under by hand, and the seal of the Land Office…" This is technically a Land Office Warrant. Benjamin Franklin printed 200 of these By the Proprietaries certificates for Nicholas Scull, the Surveyor General. A rather nice early document. These were used to grant land, define the grantees financial obligations and the survey. Fold separations with tape repairs which appears to be not of archival standards. Some paper loss at right upper and lower corners from a previous mounting. Otherwise, very fine.
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