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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 663

North American Land Company, certificate for 2 shares, 179(5), no.2094, handsigned by Robert Morris as President, black on thin watermarked paper, good very fine and no ink burning of the signature. Estimate £ 350 Robert Morris (1734-1806), merchant , financier and statesman. Member of the Continental congress, signed the Declaration of Independence, founder of the Bank of North America. Bankrupted by land speculations and spent some time in debtors prison until the passing of the National bankrupt law in 1802

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£260