Washington, GeorgeAutograph document signed five times in text ("George Washington"), being a certified copy of an indenture signed by his Mount Vernon neighbor John Posey One page (368 x 238 mm). [Mount Vernon,] 14 October 1770, countersigned by witnesses John Parke Custis, Martha Parke Custis, and Amelia Posey, six-line autograph endorsement by Washington on the verso, together with an official certification of Posey's signature by Fairfax County clerk Peter Wagener, 21 June 1785; browned, fold separations repaired on verso, occasionally costing a bit of a letter. According to Mount Vernon, "Of all the real estate transactions Washington made, perhaps none was more difficult and precarious than the deal he cut with his next-door neighbor, John Posey" (https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/real-estate/leasing-his-neighbors-property/). Posey had claim to at least two significant parcels of land: a tract of some 200 acres on the Potomac River that he purchased from George Washington's youngest brother, Charles Washington; and a grant of 3,000 acres on the then-Western frontier. Posey's finances became so insolvent that in 1770 a sheriff's sale was ordered to cover his debts. At that sale, Washington obtained the 200 acres that adjoined Mount Vernon. In an effort to assist his neighbor and (at least occasional firend), Washington entered into the present bond with Posey. In the document, Posey, who at this time had quitted Fairfax County for Maryland, acknolwedges his debt to Washington of £1000 "current money of Virginia." Referencing the 7 October 1763 proclamation of George III under which Posey, "having served as a Captn. in the Second Regiment of the Virginia Troops commanded by the Honble. William Byrd was … entitled … to Three thousand acres of Land," the document further establishes that Posey (having found the land "inconvenient to seek after") has sold his right to the tract to Washington "for a certain sum" and authorizes Washington to "pursue in his the said Posey's name such measures as are just & proper in order to enter & secure the same." PROVENANCE:Christie's New York, 16 December 2004, lot 458 (undesignated consignor)
Washington, GeorgeAutograph document signed five times in text ("George Washington"), being a certified copy of an indenture signed by his Mount Vernon neighbor John Posey One page (368 x 238 mm). [Mount Vernon,] 14 October 1770, countersigned by witnesses John Parke Custis, Martha Parke Custis, and Amelia Posey, six-line autograph endorsement by Washington on the verso, together with an official certification of Posey's signature by Fairfax County clerk Peter Wagener, 21 June 1785; browned, fold separations repaired on verso, occasionally costing a bit of a letter. According to Mount Vernon, "Of all the real estate transactions Washington made, perhaps none was more difficult and precarious than the deal he cut with his next-door neighbor, John Posey" (https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/real-estate/leasing-his-neighbors-property/). Posey had claim to at least two significant parcels of land: a tract of some 200 acres on the Potomac River that he purchased from George Washington's youngest brother, Charles Washington; and a grant of 3,000 acres on the then-Western frontier. Posey's finances became so insolvent that in 1770 a sheriff's sale was ordered to cover his debts. At that sale, Washington obtained the 200 acres that adjoined Mount Vernon. In an effort to assist his neighbor and (at least occasional firend), Washington entered into the present bond with Posey. In the document, Posey, who at this time had quitted Fairfax County for Maryland, acknolwedges his debt to Washington of £1000 "current money of Virginia." Referencing the 7 October 1763 proclamation of George III under which Posey, "having served as a Captn. in the Second Regiment of the Virginia Troops commanded by the Honble. William Byrd was … entitled … to Three thousand acres of Land," the document further establishes that Posey (having found the land "inconvenient to seek after") has sold his right to the tract to Washington "for a certain sum" and authorizes Washington to "pursue in his the said Posey's name such measures as are just & proper in order to enter & secure the same." PROVENANCE:Christie's New York, 16 December 2004, lot 458 (undesignated consignor)
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