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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1505

Webster, Noah American lexicographer and editor (1758-1843); his dictionary did much to standardize American English. Pair of Documents Signed "Noah Webster," each 3 pages, legal folio, New York, December 20 1894 and February 2, 1896. The first is a land indenture by which Webster purchases from Lindley Murray "that certain Lot of Ground...in the second Ward of the City of New York now in the Tenure and occupation of Thomas Greenleaf printer; bounded in front on Water Street, on the East side by Ground of Robert Bruce, and on the west side by Ground of John Keese..." Signed with wax and paper seal at close, along with signatures of Murray´s attorneys. In the second, Webster and his wife sell the same lot to John Peshine, a cordwainer. With ANS "Noah Webster," 1/6 page on verso of last page of the deed, November 14, 1796, authorizing the delivery of the deed to Peshine, who has fulfilled all conditions of the indenture except payment of the mortgage, which is not yet due. Both lightly foxed, with minor edge and fold wear, VG. Thomas Greenleaf published a pro-Republican paper, but Webster put his old shop to work for their Federalist opponents; there he published the city´s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, partly with money borrowed from Alexander Hamilton. [2]

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