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Sale 5180
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Estimate$400 – $600
Newport (Rhode Island), January 12, 1767. Single sheet, 3 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (83 x 95 mm) (sight). Autograph document, completely in the hand of Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island, William Ellery (1727-1820), authorizing a receipt for two separate transactions: "Reciev'd...of William Ellery Sixty three Pounds, eleven Shillings Old Tenor..."; counter-signed by John Cranston on behalf of his uncle, Stephen Ayrault. Unexamined out of frame, 10 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (273 x 292 mm).
The term "Old Tenor" was a nickname given to the earliest paper currency in the thirteen colonies, and had been in use since the first bills were printed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690.
![[Declaration of Independence] [Rhode Island] Ellery, William Autograph Document, signed](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/3b97ea20-9aa8-40de-8e0b-542f613f5d63?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Declaration of Independence] [Rhode Island] Ellery, William Autograph Document, signed](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/d42ba3ff-b173-44ac-a6a8-6bdb92368312?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)