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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 689

North American Land (PA) 1795. Philadelphia. 10 shs. #1920. Signed by Robert Morris as president and James Marshall as secretary. Counterfoil at left, on laid paper. The Morris signature is canceled and there is a small ink erosion hole at the base of the first "R" in "Robert." Some minor edge nibbling at the top, otherwise VF. North American Land Company was created to develop and sell lands given by a grateful Congress to Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, who was known as the "financier of the American Revolution." The European aristocrats who were supposed to buy into this scheme never appeared, and even George Washington could not save Morris from debtor´s prison.

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