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Philadelphia, PA � David Rittenhouse [as] Treasurer of Pennsylvania Promissory Note for 25 Pounds 10 Shillings to Kammerer [,]Steel[e] and Glentworth for Signing Bills of Credit from the Act of March 16, 1785 November 7, 1785. PCGS Very Fine 35 Apparent. A second Rittenhouse treasurer's office handwritten form for payments made to the signers of March 16, 1785, Pennsylvania currency. It appears three signers acted as a team to sign notes from the issue and received one payment. A manuscript document on laid paper. 19.7 cm x 15.5 cm. Fully accomplished and signed by Charles Biddle, on behalf for David Rittenhouse Esquire [as] Treasurer. Endorsed on back, along the top, once by Glentworth and Kammerer, and on behalf of Steele on November 8, 1785. Docket in central tri-fold, upside down. Face transcription: ________________ For �25,,00,,0 Specie ________________ p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}In Council p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Sir Philada November 7th 1785 p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Pay to Messieurs Kammerer Steel and p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Glentworth or order the sum of Twenty five pounds p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Specie in full of their account for signing Bills of p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Credit of this State according to Act of Assembly p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}passed the 16th of March last _______ according p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}to the Comptrollers Report _________________ p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Chas. Biddle. v.p. [?] David Rittenhouse Esquire p style="margin-top: 6.66px;margin-bottom: 6.66px;text-indent: 48px;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left;"}Treasurer Written vertically on the left edge is John Nicholson Back transcription: Received Novr 8th 1785 the written amount in full for John Stele and self James Glentworth Henry Kammerer Upside-down at the bottom is written: [& Steel?] Glentworth & Kammerer �25-10 Noted with "Edge Splits and Repairs; Minor Edge Damage." Heavy tri-folds and some edge roughness, but an excellent content document related to a specific Colonial Currency act. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
From Newman X (Heritage Auctions, November 2018), lot 20101, realized $780. |
