AMERICANA 48 55WASHINGTON, George, JEFFERSON, Thomas et al. Document signed, with accompanying documents. Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY (et al.), January 11, 1797 (et al.). Altogether ten items. Folio (10 by 15-1/2 inches), original leaf, printed, accomplished in manuscript in a secretarial hand, signed on the recto and verso. Floated on silk and framed. $33,000 Signed By George Washington, His Secretary Of State Timothy Pickering, And Additionally By An African American Crewman On Board The Ship In Question: Fascinating And Impressive Archive Of Ship’s Papers For The Sloop Nancy, All Circa 1797 Rare official document signed by George Washington as the nation’s first president and by his Secretary of State Timothy Pickering in 1797, consisting of ship’s papers—the manifest, passport and request for safe passage—for the sloop Nancy. Accompanied by an archive of additional documents, some printed and engrossed in manuscript and others fully in manuscript, all related to the same sloop from the same period. Among the crew was African American Caesar Brown, almost certainly a former slave, who served as a sailor at the rate of $10 per month. He signed his contract, present in this archive, with a mark.
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