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LOT #16

RARE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DISABILITY STATEMENT 1789 SIGNED BY JOHN NICHOLSON

JOHN NICHOLSON (d. 1800). State official; Land speculator. Nicholson was a shady Pennsylvania state official who resigned all his state offices in 1794, having been impeached, but acquitted, by the Pennsylvania Legislature just prior to his resignation

 

Scarce Partially Printed Document Signed “Jn Nicholson.” Comptroller- Generals Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1789. 1 page. Octavo. Nicholson held the office from 1782 to 1794 and was often regarded as “the financial dictator of the state.” The document reads: “These certify that William Leary late private 11th Penna. Reg’t hath been allowed a pension of four dollars per month, by the State of Pennsylvania, agreeable to Acts t the United States, on account of wounds or disabilities received or incurred in the army of the United States during the late war, and that the same hath been paid him until the first day of May, 1789 and no longer…” Uneven edges as made, light stains. Overall Fine condition. A rare original period form and one of the first we have encountered. A choice rare form.  $750 - up

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